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This study provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on partisan politics. Given the voluminous work on this subject, we focus on the relationship between government ideology and public spending. By exploiting a dataset of 800 estimates from papers published between 1992 and 2018, we find no evidence of publication bias. Taking into account the differences in the various categories of spending, proxies of ideologies, estimations methods, as well as, data and publication characteristics, we find evidence of a small positive and significant effect. JEL Classification numbers: D72, H00, C52. *We thank the editor Prof. Anindya Banerjee and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments and helpful suggestions. In addition, we thank the participants of the 2019 MAER-Net Colloquium for their comments and suggestions. Any remaining errors are the responsibility of the authors.

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