133330 20251219150007.0 doi 10.1007/s10198-018-1010-2 sideral 108126 ART-2019-108126 eng Bellido, Héctor Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1065-1304 Do political factors influence public health expenditures? Evidence pre- and post-great recession 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper analyses whether government ideology and other political- and electoral-related factors influence country-level public healthcare expenditures, focussing on the impact of the Great Recession on that relationship. We test this hypothesis for the OECD countries in 1970–2016. Our results reveal the presence of a partisan effect, left-wing governments being more likely to raise public expenditures in the health sector. We also find that coalitions increase these expenditures, whilst minority governments and those with a high presence in the lower house decrease them. Meanwhile, the opportunistic behaviour of incumbents related to the timing of elections is not supported by our results. The percentage of public expenditures over total health expenditures is also examined, obtaining similar results regarding the partisan effect. However, the onset of the Great Recession has altered these relationships, neutralizing the impact of political factors. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S124-CASSETEM group info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S32-17R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 2.367 2019 ECONOMICS 82 / 371 = 0.221 2019 Q1 T1 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES 25 / 87 = 0.287 2019 Q2 T1 0.962 2019 Health Policy 2019 Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) 2019 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Olmos, Lorena Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1438-4581 Román-Aso, Juan Antonio (orcid)0000-0002-5849-4336 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 20 (2019), 455-474 European Journal of Health Economics European Journal of Health Economics 1618-7598 742423 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/133330/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1357522 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/133330/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:133330 articulos driver 2025-12-19-14:58:08 ARTICLE