The objective of this paper is to review trends in government expenditures in the developing
world, to analyze the causes of change, and to develop an analytical framework for …

In the light of models of composition ofgovernment expenditure and economic growthand
the growing globalization process, weinfer that countries should tend to asimilar structure of …

As federal, state and local governments continue to allocate a significant share of their
resources to law enforcement and correctional spending, concerns have risen that spending …

This paper analyzes the effects of electoral cycles on municipal police expenditure. We use
a database with information on Spanish municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants for …

This paper evaluates the impact of urban sprawl on municipal expenditures, considering all
the 3,179 Spanish municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants in 2005. We have …

The literature on gender has attempted to explain the differences between the public
outcome depending on whether the ruler is male or female, on the basis that men and …

Harvard's Executive Sessions are a convening of individuals of independent standing who
take joint responsibility for rethinking and improving society's responses to an issue …

This paper provides, for the first time, an insight into the influence of urban, political,
demographic, and economic factors on several categories of municipal spending, after …

Government spending is a reflection of government policy choices. However, the
implications of government spending growth necessitate an understanding of the drivers of …

Despite the massive scale of state-level budgeting, there currently exists no theoretically
grounded and empirically sound examination of budgetary tradeoffs at this level of …