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When Do You Get Economists as Policy Makers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

Mark Hallerberg  and
Joachim Wehner
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financial crisisfinance ministrycentral bankfinancefiscal policymonetary policypartisanship
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 1193 - 1205
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Hertie School of Governance (email: hallerberg@hertie-school.org); Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (email: j.h.wehner@lse.ac.uk). We thank Jim Alt, Octavio Amorim Neto, Sebastian Barfort, Tim Besley, Christian Breunig, Lawrence Broz, Marco Cangiano, Till Cordes, Jeffrey Chwieroth, William Roberts Clark, David Davis, Torun Dewan, Quoc-Anh Do, Patrick Dunleavy, Robert Franzese, Scott Gehlbach, Emiliano Grossman, Chris Hanretty, Macartan Humphreys, Ethan Ilzetzki, Indridi Indridason, Mark Kayser, Sebastian Koehler, George Krause, David Lake, Valentino Larcinese, David Dreyer Lassen, Martin Lodge, Vincent Martigny, Salvatore Nunnari, John Patty, Shanker Satyanath, Carlos Scartascini, Alistair Smith, David Soskice, Kaare Strøm, Geoff Taylor and Cornelia Woll for helpful comments. Cristina Bodea and Adi Brender generously shared data with us. Luca Giapelli, Claudia Granados, Linnea Kreibohm, Roberto Martinez, Santiago Massons, Linnea Mills and Juan Camilo Taborda provided excellent research assistance. Drafts were prepared for the 2012 EPSA and APSA meetings and presented at the Hertie School of Governance, LSE, Sciences Po Paris, UCSD, and the 2013 Warwick Political Economy Workshop in Venice. Data replication sets are available in Harvard Dataverse at: https://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NVPJK0 and online appendices at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123417000801.

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