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This article examines the policymaking roles and interactions of governors, legislators, administrators, and lobbyists in state politics. It analyzes their policy involvement in terms of whether they fit a conceptual model of subsystem politics. These data are compared to various policy outcome measures of four state governments in the issue area of aging; Florida, Iowa, Michigan, and New Jersey. While the policy data from some states is suggestive of those results postulated in subsystem theory, the patterns of institutional involvement and interaction vary widely. All, however, suggest more clustered, rather than encompassing, patterns of influence and participation within this policy area.

Only recently have women been recruited to serve in Canadian cabinets, and their presence in these bodies remains marginal, although it is progressing steadily. This article has the objective to examine the role of some institutional variables on women's access to federal and provincial cabinets in Canada, from 1984 to the end of 2007. Six hypotheses are tested exploring the following independent variables: the overall proportion of female legislators versus the proportion of women within the government caucus only; the region; the majority or minority status of the government; the change (or lack of change) of government following a general election; the size of the cabinet; and, the political party that forms the government. The overall pro-portion of women legislators and notably, their proportion within the government caucus both exert an almost monopolistic influence on the feminization rate of cabinets. In addition, the results invite to qualify the idea which suggests that the higher a political role, the harder it is for women to attain.

El análisis econométrico realizado, en el marco de un modelo de datos depanel con efectos fijos, para el período 1993-2004, tuvo el objetivode determinar si la participación de diversas categorías de gasto públicoen el gasto público total de las provincias argentinas estuvo influida porvariables económicas, fiscales y político institucionales tales comola posibilidad de reelección, normas que limitan el gasto público o elendeudamiento o que condicionan el uso del crédito.Mientras que los coeficientes de regresión estimados para el esfuerzofiscal, la suficiencia financiera y la deuda pública fueron significativamentediferentes de cero, los resultados distaron de ser satisfactorios en el restode los casos, salvo por las variables que representaban límites impuestossobre el aumento del gasto o el uso del crédito público.Palabras Clave: gasto público provincial, respondabilidad, autonomía ysuficiencia financiera, variables político institucionales, datos de panelefectos fijos.Clasificación JEL: H72 , H11 AbstractUsing a panel data with fixed effect for the period 1993-2004, we aim at ascertaining whether the participation of public expenditure categories in total public spending of Argentine provinces was influenced by economic, fiscal and politico-institutional variables, such as provinces' political sign; possibility of reelection of the executive branch; provisions limiting public spending, public debt, or restrictions to the use of credit; and the structure of the legislative bodies. While estimated coefficients for fiscal effort, financial sufficiency, and public debt were significantly different from zero, results fell short of being conclusive for the other variables, except for categorical variables standing for limits on spending and credit use.Keywords: Provincial Public Spending, Accountability, Financial Autonomyand Sufficiency, Politico-Institutional Variables, Fixed Effect Panel Data.JEL Classification: H72 , H11

El análisis econométrico realizado, en el marco de un modelo de datos depanel con efectos fijos, para el período 1993-2004, tuvo el objetivode determinar si la participación de diversas categorías de gasto públicoen el gasto público total de las provincias argentinas estuvo influida porvariables económicas, fiscales y político institucionales tales comola posibilidad de reelección, normas que limitan el gasto público o elendeudamiento o que condicionan el uso del crédito.Mientras que los coeficientes de regresión estimados para el esfuerzofiscal, la suficiencia financiera y la deuda pública fueron significativamentediferentes de cero, los resultados distaron de ser satisfactorios en el restode los casos, salvo por las variables que representaban límites impuestossobre el aumento del gasto o el uso del crédito público.Palabras Clave: gasto público provincial, respondabilidad, autonomía ysuficiencia financiera, variables político institucionales, datos de panelefectos fijos.Clasificación JEL: H72 , H11 AbstractUsing a panel data with fixed effect for the period 1993-2004, we aim at ascertaining whether the participation of public expenditure categories in total public spending of Argentine provinces was influenced by economic, fiscal and politico-institutional variables, such as provinces' political sign; possibility of reelection of the executive branch; provisions limiting public spending, public debt, or restrictions to the use of credit; and the structure of the legislative bodies. While estimated coefficients for fiscal effort, financial sufficiency, and public debt were significantly different from zero, results fell short of being conclusive for the other variables, except for categorical variables standing for limits on spending and credit use.Keywords: Provincial Public Spending, Accountability, Financial Autonomyand Sufficiency, Politico-Institutional Variables, Fixed Effect Panel Data.JEL Classification: H72 , H11

Using a panel data with fixed effect for the period 1993-2004, we aim at ascertaining whether the participation of public expenditure categories in total public spending of Argentine provinces was influenced by economic, fiscal and politico-institutional variables, such as provinces' political sign; possibility of reelection of the executive branch; provisions limiting public spending, public debt, or restrictions to the use of credit; and the structure of the legislative bodies. While estimated coefficients for fiscal effort, financial sufficiency, and public debt were significantly different from zero, results fell short of being conclusive for the other variables, except for categorical variables standing for limits on spending and credit use.

Using a panel data with fixed effect for the period 1993-2004, we aim at ascertaining whether the participation of public expenditure categories in total public spending of Argentine provinces was influenced by economic, fiscal and politico-institutional variables, such as provinces' political sign; possibility of reelection of the executive branch; provisions limiting public spending, public debt, or restrictions to the use of credit; and the structure of the legislative bodies. While estimated coefficients for fiscal effort, financial sufficiency, and public debt were significantly different from zero, results fell short of being conclusive for the other variables, except for categorical variables standing for limits on spending and credit use. ; El análisis econométrico realizado , en el marco de un modelo de datos de panel con efectos fijos, para el período 1993-2004,tuvo el objetivo de determiner si la participación de diversas categorías de gasto público en el gasto público total de las provincias argentinas estuvo influida por variables económicas, fiscales y politico institucionales tales como la posibilidad de reelección, normas que limitan el gasto público o el endeudamiento o que condicionan el uso del crédito. Mientras que los coeficientes de regression estimados para el esfuerzo fiscal, la suficiencia financiera y la deuda pública fueron significativamente diferentes de cero, los resultados distaron de ser satisfactorios en el resto de los casos, salvo por las variables que representaban límites impuestos sobre el aumento del gasto o el uso del crédito público.