The electoral budget cycle
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AndrΓ© Blais; Richard Nadeau
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Article
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1992
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Springer US
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English
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This article begins with a review of the now substantial literature on the thesis that politicians manipulate governmental outputs so as to favor their chances of reelection. It concludes that while this "electoral cycle" thesis was initially overstated by its proponents, it retains more plausibilit