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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper
Hessami, Zohal - 2014
state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485272
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Treated Politicians, Treated Voters : A Natural Experiment of Political Budget Cycles
Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tanaka, Shoichiro - 2022
investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179284
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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076816
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Moderating political extremism : single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2009
equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824705
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Granting Public or Private Consumption? Effects of Grants on Local Public Spending and Income Taxes
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120618
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Grant Effects on Public Finance for Local Governments with Self-Selection Behavior
Tang, Cheng-Tao - 2021
This paper estimates causal effects of intergovernmental grant effects on expenditures and tax revenues of all municipalities and cities in the Philippines over the period 1993–2016. This is done by firstly utilizing a rule-based grant distribution scheme. Second, we apply an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234505
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Analysis of municipal election outcomes in Romania
Jula, Nicolae-Marius; Jula, Dorin - 2011
In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535918
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Electoral Budget Cycle in General and Local Elections : Supply or Demand-Driven Electoral Budget Deficits?
Erol, Fatih - 2018
This paper inquires the following research question that “to what extent, do election years have explanatory power to … expenditures and decrease(s) taxation before the elections for re-election prospect. This paper’s arguments are twofold. First … district level from Turkish Statistical Institute library’s scanned archive documents and on incumbent candidate and party (re-)election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113772
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Some Determinants of Intermediate Local Governments' Spending Efficiency : The Case of French Départements
Nieswand, Maria - 2011
Efforts undertaken by France to restructure the allocation of governmental competencies increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. This paper analyzes the efficiency of public spending on an intermediate government level for a sample of 96 départements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124163
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Election results and oportunistic policies : A new test of the rational political business cycle model
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Veiga, Francisco José; Veiga, … - 2011
before elections to increase their chances of eelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre-election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223422