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The role of the past in public policy: empirical evidence of the long-term effect of past policy and politics on the local budget balance
Economics of Governance ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s10101-019-00232-4
Stefanie Vanneste , Stijn Goeminne

The main focus of this paper is on the role of the past in budgetary policy and the impact of a multitude of relevant political characteristics on the local budget balance in a dynamic context. Although the importance of past policy was stated approximately 6 decades ago by Lindblom (Public Adm Rev 19(2):79–88, 1959), dynamic studies are relatively underexposed in recent literature on the budget balance at the local government level. The studies that do take into account the dynamics surprisingly do not focus on the past but treat it as a control variable. This paper exhibits the theoretical background of introducing past performance into the analysis. It is also noticeable that the dynamic studies thus far only test the partisan and the political budget cycle hypotheses. In the empirical part of this study, we add government fragmentation and government power to the dynamic analysis, and we look for both short- and long-term effects on the budget balance. In doing so, we test the impact of multiple political characteristics simultaneously on a dataset of all Flemish local governments for the period 1995–2017. The results from the dynamic panel analysis show that past performance is of importance, as are the electoral budget cycle and the power of the government. The importance of the government power for the budget balance is a new insight in dynamic research. As we focus on the long-term impact of the explanatory variables due to the dynamics, we avoid the underestimation of the impact of politics on the budget balance in the long run.



中文翻译:

过去在公共政策中的作用:过去政策和政治对地方预算平衡的长期影响的经验证据

本文的主要重点是动态背景下过去在预算政策中的作用以及众多相关政治特征对地方预算平衡的影响。尽管林德布洛姆(Lindblom)大约在60年前就指出了过去政策的重要性(Public Adm Rev 19(2):79-88,1959),但是在有关地方政府预算平衡的最新文献中,动态研究相对不足。确实考虑到动力学的研究出人意料地不在过去,而是将其视为控制变量。本文展示了将过去的表现引入分析的理论背景。还值得注意的是,迄今为止,动态研究仅检验了党派和政治预算周期假说。在本研究的实证部分,我们在动态分析中增加了政府分散化和政府权力,并寻找了对预算平衡的短期和长期影响。在此过程中,我们同时测试了多个政治特征对弗拉芒地区1995-2017年所有地方政府的数据集的影响。动态面板分析的结果表明,过去的表现非常重要,选举预算周期和政府权力也是如此。政府权力对于预算平衡的重要性是动态研究的新见解。由于我们着眼于动态因素对解释变量的长期影响,因此避免了长期低估政治对预算平衡的影响。在此过程中,我们同时测试了多个政治特征对弗拉芒地区1995-2017年所有地方政府的数据集的影响。动态面板分析的结果表明,过去的表现非常重要,选举预算周期和政府权力也是如此。政府权力对于预算平衡的重要性是动态研究的新见解。由于我们着眼于动态因素对解释变量的长期影响,因此避免了长期低估政治对预算平衡的影响。在此过程中,我们同时测试了多个政治特征对弗拉芒地区1995-2017年所有地方政府的数据集的影响。动态面板分析的结果表明,过去的表现非常重要,选举预算周期和政府权力也是如此。政府权力对于预算平衡的重要性是动态研究的新见解。由于我们着眼于动态因素对解释变量的长期影响,因此避免了长期低估政治对预算平衡的影响。选举预算周期和政府权力也是如此。政府权力对于预算平衡的重要性是动态研究的新见解。由于我们着眼于动态因素对解释变量的长期影响,因此避免了长期低估政治对预算平衡的影响。选举预算周期和政府权力也是如此。政府权力对于预算平衡的重要性是动态研究的新见解。由于我们着眼于动态因素对解释变量的长期影响,因此避免了长期低估政治对预算平衡的影响。

更新日期:2019-12-03
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