Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82909 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1999:10
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are politically powerful, both election results, and survey data from the Swedish election studies are used. The results, although somewhat ambiguous, support the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants are used in order to win votes.
Subjects: 
Political economy
tactical redistribution
intergovernmental grants
JEL: 
D72
H77
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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