Manipulating the Masses: New Theories of Political Cycles

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dc.contributor.advisorWhitten, Guy D
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLipsmeyer, Christine S
dc.contributor.committeeMemberEscobar-Lemmon, Maria
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGoidel, Kirby
dc.creatorPhilips, Andrew Q
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-21T14:35:28Z
dc.date.available2017-08-21T14:35:28Z
dc.date.created2017-05
dc.date.issued2017-04-03
dc.date.submittedMay 2017
dc.date.updated2017-08-21T14:35:28Z
dc.description.abstractDespite a large literature on political cycles, many theories and empirical results conflict with one another. I address this disconnect through three interrelated contributions. I first conduct an extensive quantitative survey of the political budget cycle literature through a meta-analysis. I find that overall there exists a positive, though substantively small political budget cycle effect. Second, I examine how incumbents may use alternatives to fiscal manipulation, such as the passage of redistributive policies, since these send a key signal to voters. Third, I examine how incumbents may not only time fiscal manipulation, but control their placement spatially. This ties in the political budget cycle literature with the literature on distributive politics. Although these findings call into question some of the existing views of political budget cycles, they show that cycles manifest themselves in alternative fashions.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161357
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectPolitical cyclesen
dc.subjectpolitical budget cyclesen
dc.subjectpolitical business cyclesen
dc.subjectdistributive politicsen
dc.titleManipulating the Masses: New Theories of Political Cyclesen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.materialtexten
local.etdauthor.orcid0000-0001-9616-1455
thesis.degree.departmentPolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A & M Universityen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen

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