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Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics

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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

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BOFFA, Federico, CAVALCANTI, Francisco i PIOLATTO, Amedeo. Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics. IEB Working Paper 2021/07. [consulta: 8 de maig de 2026]. Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/182602

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