Party Institutions and Social Welfare

• In Event: Electoral Rules, Parties, and Public Policy

Brief Overview

We estimate the effects of party institutions on social welfare in an original dataset of the last 40 years in OECD countries. We show political systems in which parties are large and disciplined are more likely to spend on effective public policies.

Authors

• Alexander Kustov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University

• Ian Shapiro, Yale University

• Maikol Cerda, Yale University