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Replication Data for: The fiscal benefits of repeated cooperation: coalitions and debt dynamics in 36 democracies
No full textDo coalition governments really suffer from short time horizons in fiscal policy-making, as posited by standard political economy models? This article focuses on coalitions which have created high levels of familiarity through shared governing experience in the past and which are likely to cooperate again in future governing coalitions. I argue that such coalitions have incentives to internalize the future costs of debt accumulation and reach credible agreements to balance their constituencies’ fiscal preferences. Moreover, sustaining broad coalitions should have electoral advantages to implementing controversial economic reforms, thus resulting with lower debt increases compared not only to less durable coalitions, but also to single-party governments. Comparing 36 OECD/EU democracies between (up to) 1962 and 2013, I estimate the effects of coalitions’ cooperation prospects on the dynamics of public debt. The findings indicate that long time horizons can help coalitions to overcome intertemporal coordination problems and to reach specific policy goals
Replication Data for: The fiscal benefits of repeated cooperation: coalitions and debt dynamics in 36 democracies
No full textDo coalition governments really suffer from short time horizons in fiscal policy-making, as posited by standard political economy models? This article focuses on coalitions which have created high levels of familiarity through shared governing experience in the past and which are likely to cooperate again in future governing coalitions. I argue that such coalitions have incentives to internalize the future costs of debt accumulation and reach credible agreements to balance their constituencies’ fiscal preferences. Moreover, sustaining broad coalitions should have electoral advantages to implementing controversial economic reforms, thus resulting with lower debt increases compared not only to less durable coalitions, but also to single-party governments. Comparing 36 OECD/EU democracies between (up to) 1962 and 2013, I estimate the effects of coalitions’ cooperation prospects on the dynamics of public debt. The findings indicate that long time horizons can help coalitions to overcome intertemporal coordination problems and to reach specific policy goals
The fiscal benefits of repeated cooperation: coalitions and debt dynamics in 36 democracies
Get PDFDo coalition governments really suffer from short time horizons in fiscal policymaking, as posited by standard political-economy models? This article focusses on coalitions that have created high levels of familiarity through shared governing experiences in the past and that are likely to cooperate again in future governing coalitions. I argue that such coalitions have incentives to internalise the future costs of debt accumulation and reach credible agreements to balance their constituencies’ fiscal preferences. Moreover, sustaining broad coalitions should have electoral advantages to implementing controversial economic reforms, thus resulting in lower debt increases compared not only with less durable coalitions but also with single-party governments. Comparing 36 economically advanced democracies between (up to) 1962 and 2013, I estimate the effects of coalitions’ cooperation prospects on the dynamics of public debt. The findings indicate that long time horizons can help coalitions to overcome intertemporal coordination problems and to reach specific policy goals
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Choosing the Path of Austerity: How Policy Coalitions Shape Welfare-policy Choices in Periods of Fiscal Consolidation
No full textIn general, fiscal adjustments are associated with significant reductions in social spending. Hence, the welfare state is not spared from austerity. Because the welfare state is still central to party competition, this is electorally risky. The paper addresses the following questions: Do left parties differ from their centrist and rightist competitors in the design of austerity measures? And does government type has an impact on the extent to which austerity policies rely on social spending cuts? By comparing 17 OECD countries between 1982 and 2009 we show that if governments embark on a path to austerity, their ideology does not have a significant effect on the magnitude of welfare state retrenchment. However, if major opposition parties and interest groups rally against social spending cuts, a broad pro-reform coalition is a crucial precondition for large fiscal consolidation programs to rely on substantial cuts to social security
The promises of “Going digital” for all: where technology meets social policy? A Statistical Analysis of European Union’s Digital Skills Inclusion Policies and Digital Skills Inequality
Get PDFDigital skills have never been more relevant to social policy. The European Union’s policy agenda has been increasingly linking digital skills to social matters such as employment, poverty, income or education. However, wide disparities in national levels of digital skills are observed across member states. This study investigates the associations between digital inclusion policies and national levels of digital skills across the European Union using Eurostat data from 2010 to 2019. Digital skills inequalities are also explored by gender and educational levels. Results suggest that public digital skills policies are associated with higher levels of digital skills, and lower levels of digital skills inequality. Conversely, private digital skills policies increase digital skills inequality. This paper explicitly links digital skills with social welfare, bridging human capital and labour market perspectives with nuanced understandings of digital skills and their reflection of preexisting socio-economic inequalities. The main theoretical contributions lie in thinking of digital skills policies within a social investment framework, inciting a broader reflection on the role of digitalisation for the future of social policy and the welfare state
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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