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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 …. Our results show that repeated episodes of corruption increase the boost abstentionism. Independent voters – those with no … political attachments – are the only group that that abstains in response to corruption. The incumbent’s core supporters fail to …

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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 … methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected by a …

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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 show that local corruption scandals first emerged during the 1999-2003 term …

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Full Characterisation of the Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustment: Evidence from Spanish Municipalities

Castells, Antoni; Esteller, Alejandro; Vilalta, Maite - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2004

By means of a dynamic panel data analysis, and using a database from municipalities of the province of Barcelona (1993-99), we describe their process of fiscal adjustment to a shock in tax capacity. About 25% of the shock is internalized through an increase in tax effort, 35% through a reduction...

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Corruption, accountability, and decentralization: theory and evidence from Mexico

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

accountable to its citizens. Accountability to citizens is also important in understanding the presence of corruption in … associated with less corruption (other things equal), while financial structures with less accountability should be associated … increases corruption. We then use a panel data set of Mexican states to study the relationship between funding sources for …

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Optimality and distortionary lobbying: regulating tobacco consumption

Colombo, Luca; Galmarini, Umberto - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015

We examine policies directed at regulating tobacco consumption through three types of instruments: (i) an excise tax hindering consumption by increasing the price of cigarettes, (ii) prevention programs helping consumers to make choices that are more time consistent when trading-off the current...

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Business taxes and the electoral cycle

Foremny, Dirk; Riedel, Nadine - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether politicians manipulate the timing of tax rate changes in a strategic way to maximize reelection prospects. To do so, we exploit the German local business tax as a testing ground which is set autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates...

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Ideology and the growth of US state government

Pickering, Andrew C.; Rockey, James - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments. Following Pickering and Rockey (2011) this impact is hypothesized to increase with mean state income. This idea is tested using state-level ideology data derived from the voting behavior of state congressional...

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Centralization and accountability: theory and evidence from the Clean Air Act

Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

This paper studies fiscal federalism when voter information varies across regions. We develop a model of political agency with heterogeneously informed voters. Rent-seeking politicians provide public goods to win the votes of the informed. As a result, rent extraction is lower in regions with...

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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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