Politicians' Neighborhoods: Where Do They Live, and Does It Matter?

O Folke, L Martén, J Rickne… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article studies the political economy of local politicians' residential neighborhoods. We
use Swedish data on the location of all politicians' and citizens' homes and their …

Political alignment and bureaucratic pay

JH Fiva, B Geys, TR Heggedal… - Journal of Public …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–
bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats' pay. We …

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks

GW Cox, JH Fiva, MEM King - British Journal of Political Science, 2024 - cambridge.org
A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political
mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous …

Love Thy (elected) neighbor? Residential segregation, political representation, and local public goods

O Harjunen, T Saarimaa… - The Journal of Politics, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study geographic political representation and geographic distribution of local public
goods within local jurisdictions with at-large proportional representation elections. We use …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-level finance impacts on participation, inclusion, and equity: Bricolage and Fuzziness in NextGenerationEU-funded renaturing projects

J Neidig, I Anguelovski, A Albaina, U Pascual - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
We analyze a multi-level ad-hoc emergency fund (MAEF)–the European NextGenerationEU
program–as an opportunity to advance ambitious municipal climate action. Presently, MAEF …

Jobs multipliers: Evidence from a large fiscal stimulus in Spain

M Alloza, C Sanz - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the unemployment effects of a large fiscal stimulus in Spain (Plan Español para
el Estímulo de la Economía y el Empleo, the Spanish Plan for the Stimulus of the Economy …

Distributive politics inside the city? The political economy of Spain's Plan E

F Carozzi, L Repetto - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We study distributive politics inside cities by analysing how local governments allocate
investment projects to voters across neighbourhoods. In particular, we ask whether …

Discretionary grants and distributive politics: Evidence from Spain

E Jarocinska - Comparative Economic Studies, 2022 - Springer
We study empirically whether the allocation of discretionary grants across Spanish regions
is related to the number of swing voters and loyal voters of the ruling party. We estimate the …

Measuring Closeness in Proportional Representation Systems

S Luechinger, M Schelker, L Schmid - Political Analysis, 2024 - cambridge.org
We provide closed-form solutions for measuring electoral closeness of candidates in
proportional representation (PR) systems. In contrast to plurality systems, closeness in PR …

Dotacje inwestycyjne z rządowych funduszy wsparcia dla samorządów 2019–2021. Polityczna alokacja zasobów?

ŁW Olejnik - Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 2022 - ceeol.com
This article contains the in-depth analysis of the distribution of funds from the Road
Development Fund (RDF), the Local Government Investment Fund (LGIF), the 100 Bypass …