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War, Democracy, and Government Size Over the Long Run
Mauricio Prado
Mark Dincecco
其他書名
A Structural Breaks Analysis
出版
SSRN
, 2010
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1qzjzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This paper examines the links between warfare, democracy, and government size over the long run, from the early nineteenth century to the present. We assemble new time series for government size for eight European countries. We then examine individual data trends using a combination of narrative and statistical techniques. Our key methodological contribution is to employ structural breaks tests, which assume no a priori knowledge of major turning points in the time series, but let the data ``speak" for themselves. Our results indicate that warfare, and not franchise extension, is the key driver of long-run increases in government size.