The Impact of Career Politicians: Evidence from US Governors
| Autor: | Harry Pickard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Variables 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public administration Identification (information) Politics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) State (polity) Transfer (computing) Political science 0502 economics and business 050207 economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Kyklos. 74:103-125 |
| ISSN: | 1467-6435 0023-5962 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/kykl.12253 |
| Popis: | This paper exploits the presence of Congressional experience in US governors that permits the identification of the relationship between political career experience and intergovernmental transfers. I assemble a noveldataset of governors’ political background and match this to federal transfer data from 1950 to 2008. Governors with Congressional experience have 0.8 percentage points more transfers to their state. I show evidence for one potential channel that this may act through, the federal grants system. The findings are robust to outliers in the data, selection effects, close elections and an alternative dependent variable based on a state’s share of total federal transfers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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