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Ideology and Public Policies: A Quasi-Experimental Test of the Hypothesis that Left-Wing Governments Spend More. (2017). Padovano, Fabio ; Le Maux, Benoît ; Dostalova, Kristna.
In: Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS.
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