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作者

Felipe Carozzi;Luca Repetto

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.75,Issue1,P.85-106

语言

英文

关键字

Political economy;Distributive politics;Partisan alignment;Local governments;H70;R53;D72

作者单位

Department of Geography and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK;Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Box 513, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Geography and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK;Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Box 513, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden

摘要

We study distributive politics inside cities by analysing how local governments allocate investment projects to voters across neighbourhoods. In particular, we ask whether politicians use investment to target their own supporters. To this aim, we use detailed geo-located investment data from Plan E, a large fiscal stimulus program carried out in Spain in 2009–2011. Our main empirical strategy is based on a close-elections regression-discontinuity design. In contrast to previous studies – which use aggregate data at the district or municipal level – we exploit spatial variation in both investment and voter support within municipalities and find no evidence of supporter targeting. Complementary results indicate that voters may be responding to investment by increasing turnout.