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Exposing Politicians’ Ties to Criminal Organizations : The Effects of Local Government Dissolutions on Electoral Outcomes in Southern Italian Municipalities

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2015

politicians' publicly exposed ties to criminal organizations. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that public …

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Who seeks reelection : local fiscal restraints and political selection

Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - In: Public choice 184 (2020) 1/2, pp. 105-134

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Is Local Government Fragmentation Politically Motivated? An Empirical Study on Bangladesh

Ali, Amin - 2023

Recent literature suggests that administrative fragmentation can be politically motived. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the determinants of administrative fragmentation at the subnational level of a unitary country- Bangladesh. The study conducts a panel data analysis...

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Does size really affect turnout? : evidence from Italian municipal amalgamations

Bolgherini, Silvia; Mollisi, Vincenzo - 2024

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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians

Riem, Marina - 2017

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in … partisanship and self-interest of politicians shape their ethos and behavior. Chapter 5 describes how partisanship shapes the … attitudes and actions of politicians in Germany. The results show that German state politicians' and governments' words differed …

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Local political budget cycles in a federation : evidence from West German cities

Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2015

This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...

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Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - 2013

This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in 1995 to study the fiscal effects of direct democracy. In the first part of the paper, we establish the relationship between referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new...

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Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances Under Cooperative Federalism

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - 2013

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Voters prefer more qualified mayors, but does it matter for public finances? : evidence for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Thomasius, Sebastian - 2012

This paper studies the importance of politician's qualification, in terms of education and experience, for fiscal outcomes. The analysis is based on a large panel for 2,031 German municipalities for which we have collected information on municipal budgets as well as the election results and...

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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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