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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments
Stastna, Lenka - 2015
This paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …, municipalities increase capital spending (primarily on infrastructure, housing, leisure activities) and decrease current spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431958
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments
Stastna, Lenka - 2015
The paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …-estimate the model for spending shares. We have found that the size of municipalities matters, and unsurprisingly, small … municipalities do not increase spending in such an extent as bigger municipalities, though big municipalities tend to have lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479456
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483986
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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012
In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310737
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Effect of redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns: Evidence from state reorganization in India
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Roy, Joydeep - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of a redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns and investigates whether it leads to closer conformity of an electorate’s voting patterns with its political preferences. We study these issues in the context of a reorganization of states in India. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283371
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Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems
Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill - 2015
, we still find a hometown bias. We document that municipalities with a representative on the regional council from the … particularistic benefits. Both effects are driven by municipalities with below median population size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343734
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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance : theory and evidence from US states
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012
In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629590
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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 levels of government are involved in the provision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354073
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Do politicians reward core supporters? : evidence from a discretionary grant program
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
information on discretionary project grants from a German state government to municipalities over the period 2008-2011. The … results show that discretionary grants were awarded to municipalities with many core supporters of the incumbent state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541062