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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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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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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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Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralization

Jametti, Mario - 2011

Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes … of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness … support the relevance of political factors as determinants of fiscal decentralization. The relationship between central …

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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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