In nations where the executive has budgetary control, how are spending decisions and allocations affected? Is intra-party conflict relevant? This paper sets out to show that institutional rules and leadership roles affect budgetary outcomes. It makes the following argument: If intra-party...

How does government spending affect party fragmentation in emergent democracies? This paper considers that parties affect the environment within which they compete. As a result, supply-side factors – such as government spending – may affect party fragmentation. We investigate how government...

How is government spending used strategically in the emergent Asian democracies of South Korea and Taiwan? As nations generally considered to have weathered democratization, a study of government spending in South Korea and Taiwan is instructive on how allocations may be used strategically...

A debate persists over how economic performance fuels democratization. It is fanned partly by the divergent experiences of the East and Southeast Asian nations of Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines. This paper provides a theoretical model that shows that economic...

A large literature on government spending notes that new democracies generally change their spending patterns in favor of social spending to build support and in response to constituency demand. Yet, curiously, studies of new democracies also reveal volatility in their party system development...