Intergovernmental Grants as a Tactical Instrument: Some Empirical Evidence from Swedish Municipalities

Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are politically powerful, both election results, and survey data from the Swedish election studies are used. The results, although somewhat ambiguous, support the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants are used in order to win votes.

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Year of publication:	1999-06-15
Authors:	Johansson, Eva
Institutions:	Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet
Subject:	Political economy \| tactical redistribution \| intergovernmental grants

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published in Journal of Public Economics, 2003, pages 883-914. The text is part of a series Working Paper Series Number 1999:10 34 pages
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H77 - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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