The use of intergovernmental grants to municipalities for electoral purposes by subnational governments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6302682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kadour Mehiriz (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre eau, terre et environnement, Quebec, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 274-290 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Government Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03003930.2016.1263189 |
| OpenAlex | W2558377847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
Subnational governments devote a significant share of their financial resources to help municipalities provide local public services to their citizens. Compared to the large number of studies on national governments, little effort has been devoted to the influence of distributive politics on the use of intergovernmental grants by subnational governments. To fill this gap, this study uses a data set covering the period 2001–2011 to verify to what extent the Québec government used conditional grants to municipalities for electoral purposes. The results of this study show that the allocation of grants to municipalities is not exempt from electoral politics as municipalities located in districts held by governing parties or in high electoral competition districts receive more grants than other municipalities. However, the influence of electoral politics decreases substantially when the management of intergovernmental grants is under tight scrutiny by the opposition parties, mass media and the population. These findings suggest that distributive politics can be conceptualised as a political agency problem whose prevalence is seriously constrained by the improvement of the transparency of public policies management
Agency (philosophy · Economics · Electoral geography · Local government · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |