Tamás Vasvári
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamás Vasvári |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamás |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasvári |
| SIGNATURE | VASVÁRI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pecs |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9328-2198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grant Schemes and Pork-Barrel Politics in Local Government Funding in Hungary
The article investigates the extent of political favouritism in the central financing of local governments in Hungary between 2015 and 2018.An investigation of various transfers and the role of both mayor and member of parliament (MP) in the granting of funds enabled me to map how grant schemes relate to porkbarrelling.The rewarding of core supporters is observable with regard to discretionary intergovernmental transfers, while the political alig…
Against the tide
The 2019 local election in Hungary accelerated the trend of centralization, marked by a simultaneous reduction in available local funds and an increase in discretionary transfers to local governments. This paper, utilizing a dataset encompassing all over 3000 municipalities from 2015 to 2020, employs fixed-effect estimations and a regression discontinuity design to explore how election outcomes influenced central decisions on intergovernmental tr…
Beneficiaries and cost bearers
Previous research has found that there is no uniform budget constraint for local governments: politically favoured local governments receive additional funds and are subject to less fiscal discipline. If so, the fair distribution between beneficiaries and cost bearers of the local fiscal policy is not realised. The paper focuses on this phenomenon in the light of political clientelism. We conduct an analysis regarding the Hungarian local governme…
Hardening the budget constraint
Kornai (2014) described the problems of municipal indebtedness in Hungary and analysed the process of bailout carried out between 2011 and 2014. In the same period, the central government also reformed the local government system, which included serious limitations of their financial independence. This study re-examines the state of the soft budget constraint (SBC) of Hungarian local governments. To start, the general theoretical framework of SBC…
Beneficiaries and cost bearers
Previous research has found that there is no uniform budget constraint for local governments: politically favoured local governments receive additional funds and are subject to less fiscal discipline. If so, the fair distribution between beneficiaries and cost bearers of the local fiscal policy is not realised. The paper focuses on this phenomenon in the light of political clientelism. We conduct an analysis regarding the Hungarian local governme…
Hardening the budget constraint
Kornai (2014) described the problems of municipal indebtedness in Hungary and analysed the process of bailout carried out between 2011 and 2014. In the same period, the central government also reformed the local government system, which included serious limitations of their financial independence. This study re-examines the state of the soft budget constraint (SBC) of Hungarian local governments. To start, the general theoretical framework of SBC…
Beneficiaries and cost bearers
Previous research has found that there is no uniform budget constraint for local governments: politically favoured local governments receive additional funds and are subject to less fiscal discipline. If so, the fair distribution between beneficiaries and cost bearers of the local fiscal policy is not realised. The paper focuses on this phenomenon in the light of political clientelism. We conduct an analysis regarding the Hungarian local governme…
Grant Schemes and Pork-Barrel Politics in Local Government Funding in Hungary
The article investigates the extent of political favouritism in the central financing of local governments in Hungary between 2015 and 2018.An investigation of various transfers and the role of both mayor and member of parliament (MP) in the granting of funds enabled me to map how grant schemes relate to porkbarrelling.The rewarding of core supporters is observable with regard to discretionary intergovernmental transfers, while the political alig…
Against the tide
The 2019 local election in Hungary accelerated the trend of centralization, marked by a simultaneous reduction in available local funds and an increase in discretionary transfers to local governments. This paper, utilizing a dataset encompassing all over 3000 municipalities from 2015 to 2020, employs fixed-effect estimations and a regression discontinuity design to explore how election outcomes influenced central decisions on intergovernmental tr…
Law (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Local government (3 works)