The Road to Power: Partisan Loyalty and the Centralized Provision of Local Infrastructure
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- Marcelin Joanis, 2011. "The road to power: partisan loyalty and the centralized provision of local infrastructure," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 146(1), pages 117-143, January.
- Marcelin Joanis, 2008. "The Road to Power: Partisan Loyalty and the Centralized Provision of Local Infrastructure," Cahiers de recherche 08-15, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke.
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Keywords
partisan loyalty; swing voters; political competition; local public goods; distributive politics; long-run relationships.; loyauté partisane; électeurs pivot; concurrence électorale; biens publics locaux; clientélisme politique; relations de long terme.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2009-12-05 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-PBE-2009-12-05 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2009-12-05 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2009-12-05 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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