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The Effects of Partisan Alignment on the Allocation of Intergovernmental Transfers. Differences-in-Differences Estimates for Spain

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - CESifo - 2006

enough within-municipality variation in partisan alignment to provide differences-in-differences estimates of the effects of … alignment on the amount of grants coming from each source. Moreover, the fact that a municipality may simultaneously receive … effects of changing alignment status on the change in grants coming from the aligned grantors relative to the change in grants …

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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Immunity

Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - CESifo - 2013

Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...

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Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - CESifo - 2013

This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...

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Lexicographic Voting

Klingelhöfer, Jan - CESifo - 2012

This paper reconsiders the division of the literature on electoral competition into models with forward-looking voters and those with backward-looking voters by combining ideas from both strands of the literature. As long as there is no uncertainty about voters’ policy preferences and parties...

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Lame Ducks and Divided Government: How Voters Control the Unaccountable

Schelker, Mark - CESifo - 2011

Divided government is not only the outcome of moderate voters’ electoral decision to balance party ideology in …

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Terrorism Prevention and Electoral Accountability

Dragu, Tiberiu; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2009

How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democ- racy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal …

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Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - CESifo - 2013

This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on … aligned ones. Our empirical strategy to identify the alignment effects is built upon the fact that being or not aligned …

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Information, Polarization and Delegation in Democracy

Schultz, Christian - CESifo - 2003

This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is uni-dimensional, there is uncertainty both about the preferences of the future electorate and the future polarization of political parties, and politicians have better information about the state of the...

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Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Kessing, Sebastian - CESifo - 2009

accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with … decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …

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