Spending to Win: Political Institutions, Economic Geography, and Government Subsidies

ISBN-13: 9781108432030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Stephanie J. Rickard

Opis

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

Recenzje

'Rickard's book provides a clear and compelling theory of subsidies to special interests across the world's wealthy democracies. Its account of how electoral institutions interact with geographic dispersion of industries is at once simple and powerful. The study makes a particularly important contribution to our understanding of economic policies directed to special interests in systems of proportional representation.' Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles

Spis treści

Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Who gets what and why? The politics of particularistic economic policies; 2. The uneven geographic dispersion of economic activity; 3. How institutions and geography work together to shape policy; 4. Explaining government spending on industrial subsidies; 5. The power of producers: successful demands for state aid; 6. Why institutional differences among proportional representation systems matter; 7. The policy effects of electoral competitiveness in closed-list PR; 8. Conclusion and implications; References; Index.