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:	2001
Authors:	Johansson, Eva
Publisher:	Uppsala : Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Subject:	Kommunaler Finanzausgleich \| Neue politische Ökonomie \| Political economy \| tactical redistribution \| intergovernmental grants

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Series:	Working Paper ; 1999:10
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	87786117X [GVK] hdl:10419/82909 [Handle] RePEc:hhs:uunewp:1999_010 [RePEc]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H77 - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
Source:	EconStor

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