Panel data analysis and partisan variables: how periodization does influence partisan effects
Veröffentlichungsdatum
2015-10-05
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Zusammenfassung
One central result of macro-quantitative studies in comparative public policy is that the importance of partisan politics on policy outputs has strongly decreased in recent decades. This finding may well be a methodological artifact. I argue that ad hoc standards in panel data analysis, especially using country-years as periodization, create estimation problems which potentially influence results against partisan variables. Therefore, I propose a simple and straightforward, as well as theoretically suitable, alternative to test the influence of partisan politics on policies and use cabinets instead of country-years. Using comparative welfare state research as an example, I show that partisan effects are strong and stable when using a cabinet-based periodization and fragile and weak within the standard procedure based on annual data. This paper aims at suggesting that annual periods do not need to be the best simplification of time in empirical analyses.
Schlagwörter
Comparative public policy
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Comparative welfare state research
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Panel data analysis
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Partisan effects
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Social expenditure
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Social policy
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TSCS data
Verlag
Taylor & Francis
Institution
Fachbereich
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
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23
Heft
10
Startseite
1442
Endseite
1459
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
Sprache
Englisch
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