Partisan Impact on Local Government Spending - The Effects of Party Politics on Municipal Expenditure in Sweden
This essay aims to examine whether there is a partisan influence on local government spending using three different measures, ideology, fragmentation and constellations of government. The ideology measure examines the share of socialists (left-wing parties) in the council. Fragmentation consists of a Herfindahl index which uses information on number of parties in the council and their respective s