During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

During economic crises, governments often increase fiscal spending to stimulate the
economy. While the fiscal spending surge may be temporary, spending composition is often …

This paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives
influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971 …

This paper evaluates empirically how, in the course of globalization, partisan politics
affected social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries. I introduce an updated indicator …

This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced the allocation of public
expenditures in OECD countries. I analyze two datasets that report different expenditure …

Two hypotheses relate to the globalization–welfare state nexus: the efficiency hypothesis
predicts that globalization reduces government sector size and governments' capacity to …

Economic growth and development requires greater access to global markets, while
developing countries face many challenges in terms of trade liberalization. That is why most …

This paper is the first to examine the causal relationship between trade openness and
government size using both aggregate and disaggregated government expenditure data …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on population health
using panel data for up to 179 countries for the period between 1980 and 2011. Our main …

In this paper, we provide an up‐to‐date empirical assessment of the relationship between
economic globalisation and government spending for the 'hyper‐globalisation'period of the …