dc.contributor.author | Halse, Askill Harkjerr | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Norway | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-17T17:11:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-17T17:11:30Z | |
dc.date.created | 2016-03-17T15:24:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal of Political Economy. 2016, 43 (June), 41-56. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0176-2680 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2764726 | |
dc.description.abstract | A central question in political economy is whether decision-making in representative democracies is biased towards local public investments or other types of policies which have locally concentrated benefits. The model by Weingast et al. (1981) predicts that a legislature with members from different areas will spend more in total on local public goods when the geographic constituency of each member is small. I test this prediction using panel data on the 18 Norwegian regional councils, exploiting that the geographic allocation of regional council seats varies considerably over time. Consistent with the theory, I find robust evidence that investments in regional public roads are lower when many council members come from the more populated areas in the region. This gives a more direct test of the prediction by Weingast et al. (1981) than existing empirical evidence, which concerns the relationship between public spending and legislature size. I find similar but less robust results for the maintenance of existing roads. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | More for everyone: The effect of local interests on spending on infrastructure | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.02.003 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1345711 | |
dc.source.journal | European Journal of Political Economy | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 43 | en_US |
dc.source.issue | June | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 41-56 | en_US |
dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 179552 | en_US |