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Federalism and Inter-Regional Redistribution

Rodden, Jonathan - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

bargaining, representation, and the distribution of income across regions. Third, it examines the historical conditions under …

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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects

Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper answers this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. These facts make it possible for us to separate...

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Corruption scandals, press reporting, and accountability. Evidence from Spanish mayors

Costas-Pérez, Elena; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

We analyse the effects of local corruption on electoral outcomes with Spanish data. Based upon press reports published between 1996 and 2009, we are able to construct a novel database on corruption scandals and news related to bribe-taking in exchange for amendments to land use plans. Our data...

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Green polities: urban environmental performance and government popularity

Bianchini, Laura; Revelli, Federico - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Ascertaining whether local election results are driven by incumbents’ performance while in office or mechanically reflect constituencies’ ideological affiliation and macroeconomic conditions is crucial for evaluating the alleged accountability-enhancing property of decentralization. Based on...

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Why do small states receive more federal money? Us senate representation and the allocation of federal budget

Larcinese, Valentino; Rizzo, Leonzio; Testa, Cecilia - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

In this paper we provide new evidence on the importance of the so-called small state advantage for the allocation of the US federal budget. We also provide a new interpretation of the available empirical evidence. Analyzing outlays for the period 1978-2002, we show that not only does the...

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The political economy of infrastructure construction: The Spanish “Parliamentary Roads” (1880-1914)

Curto-Grau, Marta; Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

This paper examines the extent to which the public allocation of road investment was influenced by political and electoral goals during the Spanish Restoration (1874-1923). More precisely, we seek to identify those provinces that were favoured with higher road construction expenditure and...

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Political corruption and voter turnout: mobilization or disaffection?

Costas-Pérez, Elena - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014

Corruption may affect voter turnout either by mobilizing citizens to go to the polls or by promoting voter disaffection. Using Spanish local and survey data, we study whether these effects depend on partisan leanings or the timing of scandals. Our results show that repeated episodes of...

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Does corruption erode trust in government? Evidence from a recent surge of local scandals in Spain

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and data on the level of trust expressed in local...

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Local representation and strategic voting: evidence from electoral boundary reforms

Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

We use Finnish local election voting data to analyze whether voters value local representation and act strategically to … concentration effect is clearly larger in municipalities that are less likely to gain local representation in the post … municipalities increases. We interpret these results as evidence of both preferences for local representation and strategic voting. …

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Tax limits and local democracy

Revelli, Federico - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

Based on a theoretical model where state limits on local government policy elicit a move from private value (position issue) to common value (valence issue) voting, I exploit exogenous variation in tax limitation rules in over 7,000 Italian municipalities during the 2000s to show that fiscal...

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