Affiliation:
1. Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York, York YO1 5DD, England
Abstract
Since the formulation of the well-known law of the ‘displacement effect’ there has been a relative concentration on public consumption expenditure as a determinant of public-sector spending. However, in the last few years transfers toward the personal sector have been the most dynamic item and could effectively have caused the observed fluctuations in government expenditure. A causal analysis approach is used to suggest a method for explaining their dynamics in the period 1960–88.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Administration,Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development