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Title: | Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics |
Author: | Boffa, Federico Cavalcanti, Francisco Piolatto, Amedeo |
Keywords: | Federalisme Eleccions Sociologia política Brasil Federal government Elections Political sociology Brazil |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IEB21/07] |
Abstract: | Central politicians channel resources to sub-national entities for political gains. We show formally that the central politicians' allocation decision has two drivers: political alignment (between central and local politicians) and the level of local political accountability. However, drivers count one at a time: alignment matters before local elections, while local political accountability matters before central elections. We then perform a test of our model using Brazilian data, which corroborates our results. Furthermore, we show and explain why political accountability becomes a curse: better educated districts receive fewer transfers in equilibrium |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://ieb.ub.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Doc2021-07.pdf |
It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2021/07 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/182602 |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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