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Winning a district election in a clientelistic society : evidence from decentralized Indonesia
Farah, Alfa - 2019
incentives bring electoral consequences. Upon exploiting a natural experiment in Indonesia, the study found that the elected …
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How Much Is Your Vote? Opportunistic Business Cycles of Grant Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Election
Chalil, Tengku Munawar - 2019
-buying action. The paper tests the argument by using Indonesia local election and grants spending data from 2008 to 2013. Through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896626
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Voting with your wallet? : municipal budget policy and election results
Baert, Stijn; Matthijs, Herman; Verdievel, Ilse - 2018
In this paper, the authors examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. They contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for...
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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper
Hessami, Zohal - 2014
This paper exploits a natural experiment in Hesse where a reform of the electoral rule from mayor appointment by the local council towards direct mayor elections was introduced during a phase-in period from 1993 to 1998. The end of the term of the last appointed mayor varies across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485272
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Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …
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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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Voting, taxes and heterogeneous preferences : evidence from Swedish local elections
Mörk, Eva; Nordin, Mattias - 2016
A standard finding in the literature on political agency is that voters punish incumbents who raise taxes. Typically, only the reaction of a representative voter is considered, with the notion that all voters dislike high taxes because the revenue is, at least on the margin, spent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446608
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230500
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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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The Politics of Potholes : Service Quality and Retrospective Voting in Local Elections
Burnett, Craig M. - 2017
By conditioning their support for political incumbents on observed performance outcomes, voters can motivate elected officials to represent their interests faithfully while in office. Whether elections serve this function in sub-national U.S. government remains unclear, however, because much of...
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