As national tides become more positive challenger victories increase rapidly, but only for the biggest spenders.
Table 4 illustrates these points further, by listing the top and bottom ten spenders on each service in 1936.
Not all the high spenders were, however, coastal boroughs and so may also be a hangover from an earlier focus on epidemic disease as the major scourge to health.
The interactive effect is smaller for open seats: the difference between the most and least favourable national tide is about 1 percentage point larger for spenders at the 95th percentile.
Even the miser, who is the most bound to quotidian contingency and thus practices the severest form of self-suppression, becomes a liberal spender under the influence of wine.
Where the incumbent is running, the difference between the most and least favourable national tide is 9 percentage points for average spenders and 11 percentage points for high spenders.
Perhaps most important of all, the development corporations will be much better spenders of public money than local authorities.
If one looks at the back of a rate demand, one will find that education is far and away the biggest spender.
