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The Detection Of Malingered Psychopathology And Cognitive Deficits: Employing The Fake Bad Scale And The Raven's Standard Progressive Matricies, Mitchell Byrne, Peter Golus, Steven Sellers
The Detection Of Malingered Psychopathology And Cognitive Deficits: Employing The Fake Bad Scale And The Raven's Standard Progressive Matricies, Mitchell Byrne, Peter Golus, Steven Sellers
Mitchell K Byrne
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Fragmented Legislatures And The Budget: Analyzing Presidential Democracies, Charles R. Hankla
Fragmented Legislatures And The Budget: Analyzing Presidential Democracies, Charles R. Hankla
Political Science Faculty Publications
What impact does party fragmentation have on the likelihood of democracies to run a fiscal deficit? Past research is almost unanimous in finding that as the number of parties in a country's legislature or government grows, so does its probability of overspending. However, this finding is based largely on parliamentary systems, and there is no reason to believe that it should hold when executives are independent. In this article, I develop a theory for the impact of legislative fragmentation on budgetary politics in presidential democracies. I argue that unified presidential systems should tend most toward fiscal solvency but that increasing …