Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom
Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom
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DOI：
10.1080/13501763.2015.1048703
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发表时间：
2016-04
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Julian L. Garritzmann;Kilian Seng
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作者：
Julian L. Garritzmann;Kilian Seng
许多文献分析了政党对公共教育支出的影响。我们从理论、方法和经验的角度对这一文献提出了挑战。这是标准的回归支出内阁席位份额加权党的家庭假人在时间序列的横截面回归使用“国家年”的数据。但使用“国家年”数据人为地夸大了病例数，导致了有偏见的估计，因为政府通常不会每年更换。第二，使用政党家族作为政党偏好的代理人，假设家族内的政党持有相似的立场，而不同家族的政党则不同。但根据经验，情况往往并非如此。最后，历史制度主义者的观点表明，我们首先不应该再期待政党效应。在实证方面，我们提出了一个新的设计，在政府长期层面的分析中使用政党偏好的直接测量。我们发现，在21个民主国家中，政府的党派组成对1995年至2010年的教育支出没有任何显着影响。
ABSTRACT Much literature has analysed parties’ influence on public education spending. We challenge this literature on theoretical, methodological and empirical grounds. It is standard to regress expenditure on cabinet seat-share weighted party family dummies in time-series cross-section regressions using ‘country-year’ data. But using ‘country-year’ data artificially inflates the number of cases and leads to biased estimates, as governments usually do not change annually. Second, using party families as proxies for party preferences assumes that parties within families hold similar positions while they differ across families. But this is empirically often not the case. Finally, a historical institutionalist perspective suggests that we should not expect party effects anymore in the first place. Empirically, we propose a new design, using direct measures of party preferences in analyses on government-term level. We find that the partisan composition of government did not have any significant effects on education spending from 1995 to 2010 in 21 democracies.