Search Results - subject:"Local government"

Towards a measure of local government performance in Ghana : conceptual framework, data, and results

Chachu, Daniel Ofoe; Danquah, Michael; Gisselquist, … - 2025

citizens. Despite extensive debate on their effectiveness, systematic methods to assess local government performance remain … proposes a conceptual framework to measure local government performance, applying it to Ghana-a stable democracy and a leader … measure' is good enough to capture variations in local government performance, despite a restricted list of indicators. Our …

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Local government expenditure and quality of life in Finnish municipalities

Makkonen, Teemu; Vartiainen, Niko; Rauhut, Daniel; … - In: Review of regional research : a publication of the … 44 (2024) 4, pp. 457-478

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Young versus old politicians in local politics

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with detailed administrative data on municipal spending in Bavaria. Our identification strategy makes...

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The effects of intergovernmental transfers on the local fiscal incentives of Brazilian municipalities

Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda; Araujo, Jevuks Matheus de - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 13 (2024), pp. 1-20

The objective of this work is to analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on the behavior of Brazilian municipal policymakers. This work uses the first three cutoffs of the transfer rules of the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM) and applies a regression discontinuity designs (RDD) to...

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