Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00118755" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00118755 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-020-00841-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-020-00841-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-020-00841-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11127-020-00841-2</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level
Original language description
Does the targeted spending of public resources provide electoral benefits for incumbents? Despite the attention of scholars to that question, the empirical results are mixed thus far. The present paper supplies insights into the electoral benefits of discretionary funding on local elections. I study the consequences of pork-barrel politics in 7355 competitive mayoral elections in Slovakia between 2006 and 2018, finding that more grants from the central government enhance the likelihood of mayors winning reelection. The same advantage applies to mayors whose municipalities receive grants in local election years. The effects of the number of grants obtained as well as the timing of their distribution are, however, moderated by municipal population. More specifically, a larger number of grants and resources obtained near the end of the mayoral term provides electoral benefits only to small town mayors but give no advantage to the mayors of larger urban areas.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-16928S" target="_blank" >GA18-16928S: Distributive Politics in Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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