Add to ORKGAre grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are politically powerful, both election results, and survey data from the Swedish election studies are used. The results, although somewhat ambiguous, support the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants are used in order to win votes
This item is only available electronically.How do intergovernmental grants affect the level of effic...
We evaluate the impact of political forces in the allocation of intergovernmental grants in Portugal...
In many countries, public spending is often influenced by electoral considerations, such as using gr...
Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a ...
A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 bil...
The aim of this paper is to study two separate but yet connected effects of an increase in the Swedi...
Modellen för röstmaximerande politiska partier i ett proportionerligt valsystem presenterad av Lindb...
peer reviewedInstead of alleviating fiscal inequalities, intergovernmental grants are often used to ...
ABSTRACT: In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisa...
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially hav...
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially hav...
This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby ...
This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment bet...
AbstractPolitical economy literature highlights the tactical use of intergovernmental grants for ele...
In this paper we investigate whether there are any tactical motives behind the distribution of grant...
This item is only available electronically.How do intergovernmental grants affect the level of effic...
We evaluate the impact of political forces in the allocation of intergovernmental grants in Portugal...
In many countries, public spending is often influenced by electoral considerations, such as using gr...
Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a ...
A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 bil...
The aim of this paper is to study two separate but yet connected effects of an increase in the Swedi...
Modellen för röstmaximerande politiska partier i ett proportionerligt valsystem presenterad av Lindb...
peer reviewedInstead of alleviating fiscal inequalities, intergovernmental grants are often used to ...
ABSTRACT: In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisa...
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially hav...
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially hav...
This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby ...
This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment bet...
AbstractPolitical economy literature highlights the tactical use of intergovernmental grants for ele...
In this paper we investigate whether there are any tactical motives behind the distribution of grant...
This item is only available electronically.How do intergovernmental grants affect the level of effic...
We evaluate the impact of political forces in the allocation of intergovernmental grants in Portugal...
In many countries, public spending is often influenced by electoral considerations, such as using gr...