Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2008
In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisans buy more political support … than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties. We use a rich Spanish database containing … information about the grants received by 617 municipalities during the period 1993-2003 from two different upper-tier governments …