Curto-Grau, Marta; Sole-Olle, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012
We examine whether state-level incumbents discriminate in the allocation of transfers in favour of local governments controlled by co-partisans, and whether the electoral prospects of local incumbents improve when they are aligned with the state incumbent. Using a new database covering around...