Politiska faktorers effekt på offentliga budgetunderskott : En kvantitativ studie med paneldata över svenska kommuner 1998-2014

• Main Author: Wiljander, Filip
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2016
• Subjects: government type; party cohesion; ideology; least likely-method; Swedish municipalities; public budget deficits; regeringstyp; ideologi; least likely; svenska kommuner; offentliga budgetunderskott
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-273914

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.