Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013 - First version: February 2011, This version: December 2012
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)...