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EDUCATE TO LEAD? THE LOCAL POLITICAL ECONOMY EFFECTS OF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN INDONESIA

Martinez-Bravo, Monica - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2014

The extension of mass education not only affects the level of education of the labor force, but also raises the average education of local politicians. This paper investigates the impact of a large program of school construction in Indonesia on local governance and public good provision. By...

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Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data on funds sanctioned and election results from three...

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Electoral Campaigns in the Process of Transition to Democracy in Romania after December 1989. Research Theme: Local Campaign for Mayor’s Office of Iasi, 2004 – The Construction of...

LUPASCU, Nicolae - In: Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - … 1 (2012) April, pp. 69-80

local campaign for the Mayor’s office of Iasi, in 2004, considered through the national electoral context: the realization … of Mayor) resulted from this campaign and, bearing in mind the criteria announced above, I found interesting the … evolution of two candidates for the seat of Mayor of Iasi: Dan Carlan- Democrat Party (PD) and Relu Fenechiu- National Liberal …

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Note de Recherche. Analyse économique des élections municipales : Le cas de la France (1983-2001)

Farvaque, Étienne; JEAN, Nicolas - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2007) 5, pp. 945-961

This paper is a study of the joint impact of macroeconomic conditions and of party endorsements on the result of parties? candidates in local elections in France. Our sample covers the 1983-2001 period, and around 600 towns. We first test for economic variables, and find that the electorate...

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Budget structure and reelection prospects: Empirical evidence from French local elections

Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne; Héricourt, Jérôme - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2009

the reelection probability and the share of votes. It is shown that the budget structure, and notably equipment …

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Sharing the blame? Local electoral accountability and centralized school finance in California

Joanis, Marcelin - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

While electoral accountability should be stronger when responsibilities are clearly assigned to one political office, the involvement of higher tiers of government is often associated with policies specifically designed to improve local accountability. This paper investigates the impact of...

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The impact of local political applications on voter choices

Akbiyik, Ferdi; Eroglu, Ahmet Husrev - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 5-15

Voters are under the influence of several factors when they vote at the local elections, so they determine the color of their vote and realize the act of voting considering these factors. Undoubtedly, the most important of these factors is the practice of political marketing. The concept of...

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Forecasting Turkish local elections

Toros, Emre - In: International Journal of Forecasting 28 (2012) 4, pp. 813-821

The literature on political forecasting is large, although the main focus of this literature is limited to a number of countries. Nevertheless, and despite the major differences between political systems, scientific forecasting work has proved to be broadly possible, with noteworthy extensions...

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With the ballot and the brick

Booysen, Susan - In: Progress in Development Studies 7 (2007) 1, pp. 21-32

South Africa's March 2006 local government elections in many ways assumed the character of a de facto referendum on service delivery. Leading into this election were two years of grass-roots protests against both the quality of service delivery and public representation of the grass-roots'...

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Political budget cycles in Indonesia at the district level

Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 342-345

, elections. PBCs are significantly stronger if the incumbent runs for reelection. They are well identified due to the exogenously …

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