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The Political Economy of Municipal Amalgamation - Evidence of Common Pool Effects and Local Public Debt
Fritz, Benedikt - 2016
This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...
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Regional Inequality and Decentralization - An Empirical Analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in general. However, estimations using an interaction variable … approach imply that the effect depends on the level of economic development. While rich countries benefit from decentralization …
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
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Incentive Schemes for Local Government : Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England
Lockwood, Ben - 2011
This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power
Dahlberg, Matz - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2021
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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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 - 2021
This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2021
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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Free-Riding or Internalizing? An Opportunistic View on Decentralization versus Centralization
Fiorillo, Fabio - 2011
. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction … regions. To summarize, from a positive viewpoint, decentralization should not be necessarily pursued only in the absence of …
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Interjurisdictional Spillovers, Decentralized Policymaking and the Elasticity of Capital Supply
Eichner, Thomas - 2010
This paper points to the important role which the elasticity of aggregate capital supply with respect to the net rate of return to capital plays for the efficiency of policymaking in a decentralized economy with mobile capital and spillovers among jurisdictions. In accordance with previous...
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