According to our model effective 'budgetary' separation of power occurs in the states with the line-item veto when the …

states with the line-item veto, there is a jump in the tax level at the point where the government switches from divided to … legislature proposes and the governor cuts with the line-item veto, implies that the tax level is determined by the overlap …

Should the Federal government and the remaining American states adopt the line item veto? What are its effects? We use … regression discontinuity design to claim that in states with the line item veto, divided government has a causal negative effect …

to establish a causal relation between a divided government and lower tax rates in states with line item veto. In states … residual claimant of a tax increase. In the American states two conditions are needed: the governor must have the line item … veto, and the political interests of the legislative majority and the governor must not be perfectly aligned. Political …