In this paper theories regarding the effect of ideology and government type on public budget deficits are put to a test. Following the least likely-method I construct panel data on Swedish municipalities between 1998 and 2014. The data includes four political variables: the local government’s ideology, majority rule, coalition rule and number of parties in the coalition, and several control variables. The results using a fixed effects-model show that there are no effects of neither ideology, majority rule, coalition rule nor the coalition’s number of parties on Swedish municipalities’ budget deficits.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-273914 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Wiljander, Filip |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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