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Election by Community Consensus : Effects on Political Selection and Governance

Arora, Ashna - 2019

This paper evaluates the effects of encouraging the selection of local politicians in India via community-based consensus, as opposed to a secret ballot election. While secret ballot elections prevent vote capture by guaranteeing voter anonymity, consensus-based elections may improve welfare by...

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Treated Politicians, Treated Voters : A Natural Experiment of Political Budget Cycles

Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tanaka, Shoichiro - 2022

Although pre-electoral political manipulation of the budget --- the political budget cycle (PBC) --- has been long investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing. There also exist ongoing debates over how the...

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Myopia, Fiscal Federalism, and Unemployment Insurance : Time to Reform UI Financing

Galle, Brian D. - 2012

As commentators and Congress have recognized, the U.S. system of financing its unemployment insurance program is seriously dysfunctional. Extant reform proposals, however, do not fully diagnose the causes of current failures. In particular, other commentators neglect the role of fiscal myopia in...

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On the Determinants of Fiscal Centralization : Theory and Evidence

Panizza, Ugo - 1999

centralization. The recent years have witnessed strong movements for both decentralization and secession. At the same time, a divided … economic and monetary union of some European countries. It is therefore natural that decentralization has been at the center of … particularly interesting because it explains the wave of decentralization that has followed the end of the Cold War. The model also …

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On the Determinants of Fiscal Centralization : Theory and Evidence

Panizza, Ugo - 1999

This paper presents a simple positive model that unifies most of the results of the normative literature on fiscal federalism. The model describes an economy characterized by two levels of government, one public good, and a private good. The predictions of the model are tested by using a new set...

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Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems

Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill - 2015

Pork barrel spending is typically attributed to the strategic behavior of political elites hoping to be electorally rewarded by voters residing in their districts. Such behavior is expected to depend on the incentives imposed by the electoral system. We estimate the causal effect of local...

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Do politicians reward core supporters? : evidence from a discretionary grant program

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016

We investigate whether politicians award intergovernmental grants to core supporters. Our new dataset contains 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...

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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends

Stegarescu, Dan - 2004

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …

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Power to the people? The impact of decentralization on governance

Dreher, Axel - 2006

The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …

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Power to the people? : The impact of decentralization on governance

Dreher, Axel - 2006

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