Ideology and the Growth of Government
分析了意识形态对政府规模的影响，发现意识形态与平均收入的交互作用能解释OECD国家政府规模的扩大和分化。
Abstract-We analyze the impact of ideology on the size of government. In a simple model, the government sets redistribution and provision of public services according to the preferences of the median voter. Ideology is defined in terms of preferences for public services, and the impact of ideology on the size of government is shown to increase with mean income. This idea is tested using measures of ideology based on party manifestos. We show that the interaction of ideology and mean income has a major role in explaining the increase and divergence in government size observed across OECD countries.