Does the Left Spend More? An Econometric Survey of Partisan Politics*
对政党政治与公共支出关系的实证文献进行了定量综述，基于1992至2018年间800个估计值的数据集，发现政府意识形态对公共支出有微小但显著的正向影响，且不存在发表偏倚。
Abstract This study provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on partisan politics. Given the voluminous work on this subject, we focus on the relationship between government ideology and public spending. By exploiting a dataset of 800 estimates from papers published between 1992 and 2018, we find no evidence of publication bias. Taking into account the differences in the various categories of spending, proxies of ideologies, estimations methods, as well as, data and publication characteristics, we find evidence of a small positive and significant effect.