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Fiscal federalism and redistributive politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
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In this article, the interaction between redistributive politics at central and local levels in a federal system, and characterize the factors influencing success in redistributeive politics in both federal and unitary systems.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1998-05-01. It has received 235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fiscal federalism & Unitary state.read more
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Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied whether bailouts of local governments carry electoral benefits for state governments with a dataset covering 421 municipalities in the German state of Hesse over the period 1999-2011.
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Do bailouts buy votes? Evidence from a panel of Hessian municipalities
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Equalization transfers and convergence between federal and unitary systems: A contribution to their historical analysis
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
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Spatial Models of Party Competition
TL;DR: The use of spatial ideas to interpret party competition is a universal phenomenon of modern politics as discussed by the authors, and most spatial interpretations of party competition have a very poor fit with the evidence about how large-scale electorates and political leaders actually respond to politics.
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Balanced-budget redistribution as the outcome of political competition
Assar Lindbeck,Jörgen W. Weibull +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, balanced budget redistribution between socioeconomic groups is modeled as the outcome of electoral competition between two political parties, and a sufficient condition for existence is given, requiring that there be enough heterogeneity with respect to party preferences in the electorate.
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The Determinants of Success of Special Interests in Redistributive Politics
Avinash Dixit,John Londregan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine what determines whether an interest group will receive favors in pork-barrel politics, using a model of majority voting with two competing parties, where each group's membership is heterogeneous in its ideological affinity for the parties.
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Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game
Gary W. Cox,Mathew D. McCubbins +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the optimal strategy for risk-averse candidates will be to promise redistributions first and foremost to their reelection constituency and thereby to maintain existing political coalitions.