This doctoral dissertation is a study of how political parties influence budgetary policy in Canada. It includes three empirical chapters that look at different aspects of partisan representation. Taken together, these chapters shed light on the role of parties and institutions in policy. In the first manuscript, we provide a comprehensive classification of ridings that identifies electoral strongholds and battlegrounds. We show how party support stability can be explained by the presence of certain socio-economic characteristics. This first piece fills a gap in the literature on electoral politics by focusing exclusively on meso-level representation of voters' interests. Building on what is found in this first manuscript and the literature on th...
International audienceThe impact of the fragmentation of executive and legislative bodies on the lev...
One of the purposes of political parties is to reduce a heterogeneous polity into a few political e...
Recent decades have been marked by increasingly divided partisan opinion in the US. This study inves...
This paper is an attempt to test the partisanship hypothesis in bud-getary politics, in Canada. I ma...
This article tests the role of governing parties in budgetary policy in Canada. Using federal expend...
This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, bas...
While some provincial party systems in Canada diverge significantly from the national level, others ...
We investigate the political and economic factors influencing the allocation of regional de-velopmen...
In this paper we explore the capacity of political parties to contest general elections by examining...
In this paper Engel-Granger time series methodology is used to combine trending economic variables w...
Canada’s equalization program is supposed to ensure that provinces that lack the same ability to rai...
This thesis examines the role of political considerations in the development and administration of p...
ABSTRACT: Canada's equalization program is supposed to ensure that provinces that lack the same abil...
Dyadic representation has received considerable attention in the US, but much less attention in parl...
The Canadian federal government not only provides public services such as infrastructure, healthcare...
International audienceThe impact of the fragmentation of executive and legislative bodies on the lev...
One of the purposes of political parties is to reduce a heterogeneous polity into a few political e...
Recent decades have been marked by increasingly divided partisan opinion in the US. This study inves...
This paper is an attempt to test the partisanship hypothesis in bud-getary politics, in Canada. I ma...
This article tests the role of governing parties in budgetary policy in Canada. Using federal expend...
This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, bas...
While some provincial party systems in Canada diverge significantly from the national level, others ...
We investigate the political and economic factors influencing the allocation of regional de-velopmen...
In this paper we explore the capacity of political parties to contest general elections by examining...
In this paper Engel-Granger time series methodology is used to combine trending economic variables w...
Canada’s equalization program is supposed to ensure that provinces that lack the same ability to rai...
This thesis examines the role of political considerations in the development and administration of p...
ABSTRACT: Canada's equalization program is supposed to ensure that provinces that lack the same abil...
Dyadic representation has received considerable attention in the US, but much less attention in parl...
The Canadian federal government not only provides public services such as infrastructure, healthcare...
International audienceThe impact of the fragmentation of executive and legislative bodies on the lev...
One of the purposes of political parties is to reduce a heterogeneous polity into a few political e...
Recent decades have been marked by increasingly divided partisan opinion in the US. This study inves...