Replication Data for: Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of public spending changes in Italy (doi:10.7910/DVN/T86LPW)

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Replication Data for: Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of public spending changes in Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/T86LPW

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2016-08-01

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Russo, Federico, 2016, "Replication Data for: Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of public spending changes in Italy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T86LPW, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:oSjB9a3C6mw5sGm1nciK9w== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of public spending changes in Italy

doi:10.7910/DVN/T86LPW

Russo, Federico (Università del Salento)

Harvard Dataverse

Russo, Federico

Russo, Federico

2016-02-01

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T86LPW

Social Sciences

The literature developed by scholars dealing with policy agendas suggests that it is more important to look at changes in governments' priorities rather than in their ideology, and criticizes the partisan theory as inadequate. However, hypotheses based on conventional wisdom and normative theories, holding that the identity of the governing parties matters for the allocation of public expenditures, are still recurrent in the debate. And many empirical studies found mixed evidence on the importance of party ideology. Focusing on Italy (1948-2009), this article empirically tests whether shifts in governments' ideology and policy priorities are related to public spending changes in four policy sectors. The results indicate that shifts in governments' priorities are related with public spending changes in welfare and defence, while they are not relevant to explain changes in public order and education spending. Government ideology is relevant only when it comes to defence spending, but this influence can be hindered by veto players. We argue that these findings do not disprove the importance of partisan politics but warn us against relying too much on the distinction between left and right parties. At the same time, more research is needed to understand under which conditions partisan preferences translate into changing public policies

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• Number of cases: 61

• No. of variables per record: 37

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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• year - Year
• f2 - defence spending
• f3 - order and justice spending
• f4 - education and culture spending
• f5 - housing spending
• f6 - welfare spending
• gdp - GDP
• pop65 - POP65
• poptot - POPTOT
• overall_budget_regime - Overall_budget_regime
• per104
• per105
• per605
• per502
• per506
• per507
• per501
• per504
• per505
• per403
• per404
• per406
• per409
• per412
• per413
• per401
• per402
• per407
• per414
• per503
• welfare_cmp - Welfare_CMP
• left_right
• rile
• cost_miss
• left_veto
• right_veto
• electyrs

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Summary Statistics: Mean 1979.0; StDev 17.752934029806642; Valid 61.0; Max. 2009.0; Min. 1949.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dBDVJ+FkiX1qORESX/VjtQ==

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Summary Statistics: Min. 4208.38251; StDev 5535.781323113829; Mean 13383.818423934425; Max. 23523.8076; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:tzQD7LewMXS6xlcoFQi/RQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 2033.59903; Valid 61.0; StDev 7186.79644000299; Mean 10728.460274098357; Max. 24150.2948

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dO+Y5Z9rx5Jv9XGIrYTOsA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 70325.0976; Min. 2579.33121; Valid 61.0; StDev 21414.56139075789; Mean 32645.492533442626

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+PKAtJO6BIKslmWDbs2tog==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 185.861065; Mean 1953.1387931967213; StDev 1347.330359003679; Max. 6402.89728; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:unrizdfdocml0LhB4M4WZw==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 56687.16631950824; Valid 61.0; StDev 45536.144126892774; Min. 2696.07989; Max. 151268.994

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:IzzfnikQu95JyrBOSESQew==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1616366.85974846; Valid 61.0; Min. 147295.68731212; StDev 478686.0706403279; Mean 846958.9583630447;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:zci6O8NKksdYuI31p8p5NA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 7375.648033333334; Min. 3889.664; Max. 12145.81; Valid 60.0; StDev 2480.807820306269

Variable Format: numeric

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f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 47104.0; Valid 60.0; StDev 3503.8050099066386; Max. 60192.7; Mean 54552.472083333334

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Z11yfk/VYZBbFDR+goSp/g==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 13.0; Min. 2.0; Valid 61.0; StDev 4.376352250035804; Mean 6.540983606557378

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TbbO3kmKj/NQFrvgaBvTiQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 61.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.8379666386149835; Mean 0.8004918032786885; Max. 2.81;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:CYcSOGxe1hOX3OHkY9z3Gg==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.1198360655737705; Max. 0.82; Min. 0.0; Valid 61.0; StDev 0.2213857252495343

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jqM5p2WrcWELjTZ9FdFAlg==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.7572761466044495; Min. 0.0; Valid 61.0; Max. 8.05; Mean 2.1444262295081966

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JslVVFxQKLgXbaECqaQgXQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.5777122275127713; Max. 9.68; Mean 2.4111475409836065; Min. 0.0; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QueLABtOhNxfSwGjEaxcNA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 9.65; StDev 2.4069502731644334; Mean 4.35655737704918; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:qDvXaw8FGd6yC1XV7gKJpA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.03459016393442622; Valid 61.0; Max. 0.28; StDev 0.07662840575338893; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:iqOGJvIO7v9Sf2O2Svb+Hg==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 5.88; Mean 1.5401639344262297; Min. 0.0; StDev 1.9686327673483435; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:i1psEYLM8kVfGbYe82vtLA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.410061865745631; Valid 61.0; Min. 0.59; Max. 10.53; Mean 4.484262295081967

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:BeloTEyiMtWNHRuCz9nfyQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 2.76; StDev 0.5384066758816051; Valid 61.0; Mean 0.3044262295081967;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dJEIO2s0b7V7NEQopQXYHw==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 7.01; Valid 61.0; Mean 1.3163934426229509; Min. 0.0; StDev 1.325846940370425

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ymV5DmObS+65B8PZZGzqPg==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.9643919911365431; Min. 0.0; Max. 3.68; Valid 61.0; Mean 1.1054098360655737;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:D8mhCVQBiVuBCJM/5n4WfQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.63844498001537; Valid 61.0; Mean 0.46540983606557335; Max. 17.93; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:V1tU5tMChOgBmpNxT++3Tw==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.4941288925460832; Max. 5.1; Valid 61.0; Mean 0.7529508196721311; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:45tqEpoi4TYUemglgq78bA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.3200027529363572; Valid 61.0; Mean 0.5716393442622951; Max. 5.25; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2ZKI9cRdW+epeGwi9kDf7Q==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.15606557377049177; Max. 0.52; Valid 61.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.1900813745787542;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:zS1jrewWqyf5WIS9NfyLuw==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 61.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 1.710655737704918; StDev 1.326255215324284; Max. 5.91;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:VG9lEaZolfwdD3wspiq4QA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 7.25; Valid 61.0; Mean 2.432786885245901; Min. 0.0; StDev 2.1520843626180497;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:eipQwwEDKDTCNZQLi1S9yA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.2599232757750208; Valid 61.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 0.83; Mean 0.13360655737704916;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:+Urte/ZWXkXpK1OfcIwRNQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 5.88; Mean 1.3557377049180328; Valid 61.0; StDev 1.42646352800249; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:B6dseoPoFnSOXgV8BZpxBA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.6001654969053476; Max. 5.13; Valid 61.0; Mean 1.6665573770491802; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:yTHZeO9Q5vVK/AA5ZSZrQA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 61.0; Min. 1.2; StDev 2.5196754930276115; Max. 11.98; Mean 6.124098360655737;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:V1avCDIgDNU/5aF1GnuTTw==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 61.0; Min. 2.42; Max. 7.8; Mean 5.342950819672131; StDev 1.0377930819167744;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PWVvcwazQUI9HEl6XOa37Q==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean -0.6050819672131144; Max. 18.68; Valid 61.0; Min. -17.71; StDev 10.697267816745049;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:wGCfU2dsaiXS4Zq4QBMNsA==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 222.14063934426233; Valid 61.0; Max. 1457.991; Min. 0.0; StDev 416.15884201684463

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:vaBTpyt2kaCKlPH7wMvzwg==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 7.145911299; Mean 4.300303496622951; Min. 0.884857695; StDev 1.5171785055240172; Valid 61.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:l32TfnoSifNZ2x1PvFeh8A==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 8.08711999; Mean 6.107936893163934; StDev 1.0690181031395058; Valid 61.0; Min. 2.627663021;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:a1TxMp6SNAxMLQQgsKFdNQ==

f2782202 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 61.0; Mean 0.24590163934426226; StDev 0.4341941848573452; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:rprH91KBtzA4IJgMQHcgOA==

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