01553nam a2200181   4500999001900000008004100019100002400060245013300084260000900217300001500226520088900241650003101130700002401161773004301185906002301228942001201251952010801263  c510462d510462190818b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSmulders, Jef98517  aHow and why do political parties differ in their spending patterns?: an empirical analysis of expenditure on party payroll staff  c2019  ap.215-230.  aDespite the pivotal role of payroll staff within political parties’ central offices, research on the staff expenses of parties remains scarce. In this article, we study the relative staff expenses of political parties, that is staff costs as a percentage of total annual expenses. We analyse which factors explain the differences between parties’ relative staff expenses, based on a dataset of 590 individual observations representing 52 parties from seven European countries. The multivariate model shows that relative staff expenses are higher among left-oriented parties and that they increase with party age, party membership figures and the number of years a party has been in government, while they decrease with party income. Relative staff expenses also decrease with the effective number of parties in the party system, and they are lower in election years. - Reproduced.  aElection expenditure98518  aMaddens, Bart98519  aInternational Political Science Review  aPolitical parties   2ddccAR  00102ddc40709384392aIIPAbIIPAd2019-08-18h40(2), Mar, 2019: p.215-230.pAR120341r2019-08-18yAR