Political representation and public contracting: evidence from municipal legislatures
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F19%3A00517860" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/19:00517860 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11640/19:00510877
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.06.003" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.06.003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.06.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.06.003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Political representation and public contracting: evidence from municipal legislatures
Original language description
This study examines how partisan representation in multiparty legislatures affects direct expenditures, contract-allocation design and selection of politically-connected firms as suppliers in public procurement. For identification, I exploit quasi-random variation in partisan electoral outcomes near the effective representation thresholds in Czech proportional municipal elections. My regression discontinuity estimates suggest that partisan representation matters for public procurement: for instance, if local-level political parties barely enter legislatures at the expense of the national parties, municipalities decrease their direct procurement spending and allocate fewer contracts to the corporate donors of the national parties. Fewer contracts are awarded especially in pre-election years and in auctions restricting competition among procurement suppliers. The results are not associated with higher government fragmentation or selection of more competent candidates, but rather with reduced political power of the national parties.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Economic Review
ISSN
0014-2921
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
118
Issue of the periodical within the volume
September
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
411-431
UT code for WoS article
000485209400022
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85067689951