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Does fiscal decentralization help Indonesia avoid the middle-income trap?

Tirtosuharto, Darius - 2017

positive impact of fiscal decentralization in Indonesia, the expansion of the state's fiscal spending has caused some degree of …This paper focuses on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of fiscal resources at the regional level … that will improve the probability of Indonesia avoiding the middle-income trap. From a development standpoint, the …

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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 …

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How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - 2018

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided in a neutral form had no effect on voting intentions....

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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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Moderating political extremism : single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule

Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2009

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...

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The effect of information on voting behaviour

Nordin, Mattias - 2009

This paper investigates how information affect voting behaviour. There exist a large literature suggesting that uninformed voters can use informational shortcuts or cues to vote as if they were informed. This paper tests this hypothesis using unique Swedish individual survey data on the...

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Political fragmentation and fiscal policy : evidence from German municipalities

Bernard, René - 2017

The government fragmentation hypothesis (GFH) states that coalition governments spend more than single-party governments due to an underlying common pool problem. Using a large panel data set on 604 local governments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the...

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011

This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in three questions: (1) Does the partisan identity of the local mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; (2) Does this partisan...

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011

This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412375