Научный семинар Юлии Швец (Кембриджский университет): «Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures»
В четверг, 14 апреля в 16.30 в ауд. Ж-822 (Покровский бульвар, 11) прошел научный семинар МИЭФ.
Докладчик: Юлия Швец (Кембриджский университет)
Тема доклада: «Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures» (совместно с Toke Aidt) (pdf версия)
Тезисы доклада: We study the effect of electoral incentives on the allocation of public services across legislative districts. We develop a model in which elections encourage individual legislators to cater to parochial interests and thus aggravate the common pool problem. Using unique data from seven US states, we study how the amount of funding that a legislator channels to his district changes when he faces a term limit. We find that legislators bring less state funds to their district when they cannot run for re-election. Consistent with the Law of 1/N, this tendency is less pronounced in states with many legislative districts.