Journal of Economic Literature
ISSN 0022-0515 (Print) | ISSN 2328-8175 (Online)
Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States
Journal of Economic Literature
vol. 41,
no. 1, March 2003
(pp. 7–73)
Abstract
A rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent place to study the relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes. This essay has three main aims. It reviews empirical evidence on the relationship between institutional rules, political representation and policy outcomes; it aims to place the literature into a broader context of theoretical and empirical work in political economy. Second, it develops a parallel empirical analysis that updates studies in the literature and reexamines some of the claims, in a setting unified in terms of policy outcomes and period under study. Third, it develops new directions for research, presenting some novel exploratory results.Citation
Besley, Timothy, and Anne Case. 2003. "Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States ." Journal of Economic Literature 41 (1): 7–73. DOI: 10.1257/002205103321544693JEL Classification
- D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- E60 Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
- E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles