Does direct democracy reduce the size of government?

Patricia Funk interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 28 November 2008

Patricia Funk of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about her research on the impact of direct democracy on government spending, which draws on over a hundred years of data on the cantons of Switzerland. The interview was recorded at the annual congress of the European Economic Association in Milan in August 2008.

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Topics:  Institutions and economics

Tags:  democracy, government spending, Switzerland

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Patricia Funk

Professor in Economics, Università della Svizzera italiana

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