Constitutional Rules and Fiscal Policy Outcomes
研究选举规则和政府形式对财政政策结果的影响，发现总统制导致政府规模小于议会制，多数选举制导致政府规模和福利项目小于比例选举制。
We investigate the effect of electoral rules and forms of government on fiscal policy outcomes in a large sample of democracies. We rely on different estimation methods to address prospective problems of statistical inference, due to nonrandom selection of these constitutional rules. The findings are consistent with our theoretical priors: presidential regimes induce smaller governments than parliamentary democracies, while majoritarian elections lead to smaller governments and smaller welfare programs than proportional elections.