کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5067833 1476879 2016 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Do politicians reward core supporters? Evidence from a discretionary grant program
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا سیاستمداران به طرفداران اصلی پاداش میدهند؟ شواهد از یک برنامه کمک دائمی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Do politicians award intergovernmental grants to core supporters?
- New dataset on discretionary grants from a German state to municipalities.
- Discretionary grants were awarded to core-supporter municipalities.
- The fiscal capacity does not predict the level of discretionary grants.
- We propose to trim discretionary grants to the benefit of formula-based grants.

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 municipalities with many core supporters of the incumbent state government. Discretionary grants per capita increased by about 1.4 percent when the vote share of the incumbent party in the state election increased by one percentage point. The fiscal capacity of a municipality does, by contrast, not predict the level of discretionary grants. We propose to trim discretionary project grants to the benefit of formula-based grants.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Journal of Political Economy - Volume 45, December 2016, Pages 39-56
نویسندگان
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