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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016

Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...

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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition: Traditional Procurement versus Public-Private Partnerships

Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019

We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

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Grants-in-aid and the prospect of re-election: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland

Banaszewska, Monika; Bischoff, Ivo - 2018

or fiscal situation of municipalities, a positive but economically negligible effect for human capital endowment and a … municipalities with a large share pro-EU citizens and reduces it in municipalities dominated by EU sceptics. …

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Winning a district election in a clientelistic society: Evidence from decentralized Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

Lower-level officials often engage in clientelistic relations with the upper-level government. The nature of these relations might be determined by institutional factors such as how the lower-level officials come into their position. This paper specifically highlights the different political...

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Fiscal decentralization and electoral participation: Analyzing districts in Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

Many countries have adopted decentralization policies in order to strengthen democratic governance. Nevertheless, empirical literature on whether decentralization actually strengthens democratic governance is relatively limited when compared to empirical literature on the impact of...

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Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks - the role of population dynamics and elections

Bischoff, Ivo; Wolfschütz, Eva - 2019

, we expect IMC to be more frequent among shrinking municipalities. Our results supports this notion. However, there is no … evidence that municipalities make use of complementarities from divergent population dynamics. We apply a hazard model that … IMC. IMC agreements are less likely to emerge in election years when municipalities face low cost pressure while the …

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Fiscal disparity, institutions and asymmetric yardstick competition

Farah, Alfa - 2018

Fiscal disparity leads to a yardstick bias, in that incumbents in fiscally-rich jurisdictions can provide more public goods, extract more rents and yet have a higher probability to be reelected. This study further emphasizes disparity among jurisdictions, not only in terms of fiscal resources...

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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces: The MIMIC Approach

Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both government size and public investment have significant...

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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government?s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...

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