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100			_aSmulders, Jef _98517
245			_aHow and why do political parties differ in their spending patterns?: an empirical analysis of expenditure on party payroll staff
260			_c2019
300			_ap.215-230.
520			_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.
650			_aElection expenditure _98518
700			_aMaddens, Bart _98519
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
906			_aPolitical parties
942			_2ddc _cAR