Stephanie J. Rickard

Spending to Win

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781108422321
• ISBN-10: 1108422322
• Artikelnr.: 49446132

Autorenporträt

Stephanie J. Rickard is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

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Acknowledgements
1. Who gets what and why? The politics of particularistic economic policies
2. The uneven geographic dispersion of economic activity
3. How institutions and geography work together to shape policy
4. Explaining government spending on industrial subsidies
5. The power of producers: successful demands for state aid
6. Why institutional differences among proportional representation systems matter
7. The policy effects of electoral competitiveness in closed-list PR
8. Conclusion and implications
References
Index.