Elected or appointed? How the nomination scheme of the city manager influences the effects of government fragmentation

Garmann, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2014.12.004

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“…First, historically, both states have had direct executive elections since the end of World War II. That contrasts with all other German states, which introduced direct elections to the executive branch only in the mid-1990s (see Ade and Freier, 2013;Garmann, 2015;Hessami, 2018). Consequently, we cannot study individual PBCs in executive and legislative elections in other states earlier than the 2000s.…”

Section: Baden-württembergmentioning

confidence: 94%

Overlapping political budget cycles

et al. 2018

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We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive branch. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before joint elections. In the case of overlapping elections, we show that it is important whether the executive incumbent seeks re-election. To account for the potential endogeneity of that decision, we apply an IV approach based on age and pension eligibility rules.

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Section: Baden-württembergmentioning

confidence: 94%

Overlapping political budget cycles

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“…Leaders elected through a general election mechanism are proved to have lower levels of performance compared to those from a professional background who are directly appointed (Garmann, 2015). The weak financial performance of the elected leaders might increase the level of local government spending, while leaders from professional backgrounds do things the other way around.…”

Section: Political Background Of K/l Leaders and The Level Of Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This measurement is based on the research by Garmann (2015) regarding the election of local government leaders. 110 4 RESEARCH FRAMEWORK Figure 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

Competition and Cooperation in Economics and Business

Husodo¹,

Gitaharie²,

Gani³

et al. 2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Although all care is taken to ensure integrity and the quality of this publication and the information herein, no responsibility is assumed by the publishers nor the author for any damage to the property or persons as a result of operation or use of this publication and/or the information contained herein. Business -Gani et al. (Eds) © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-62666-9 v Business -Gani et al. (Eds) © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-62666-9 ix Preface This book is one of the five volumes of proceedings that provides an opportunity for readers to engage with selected papers presented at the 1st Asia-Pacific Forum for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (1st APRISH) conference held in Depok (Indonesia) on November 7-9, 2016. Quoting the theme of the conference "Competition and Cooperation in the Globalized World," this book would be a valuable contribution to get a better understanding of the future global challenges. Readers will find a broad range of research reports on topics ranging from globalization, poverty, population and some macroprudential perspectives on managing the risk of a more integrated world. One of the unique and valuable dimensions of this conference is the capability for blending the chemistries among educators, students, and researchers from around the world to discuss globalization in a broad spectrum. The reader will discover both common challenges and creative solutions emerge from very diverse settings. The relevance of the conference's theme, towards an evidence-based society, for a variety of disciplines, is reflected in the diverse range of papers that have been submitted for publication. These serve to demonstrate the natural attraction of the conference for sharing ideas and findings within an international community. Overall, the conference was undoubtedly very successful. Plenary lectures and presentations were successfully bridging the gap between the different fields of social sciences, making it possible for non-experts in a given area to gain insight into new areas. Also, among the speakers there were some young scientists, namely, doctoral, master's and undergraduate students, who bring new perspectives to their fields. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Competition and Cooperation in Economics and Competition and Cooperation in Economics andThe editors would like to thank all those who have contributed to submit full papers for this conference. We rece...

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“…These are at the heart of the present article. Our main contribution lies in assessing how and whenin the absence of outright manipulation (Litschig, 2012;Foremny et al, 2017) local governments might influence population figures such as to locate themselves on the 1 Examples of such regression discontinuity (RD) designs use data from, for instance, Brazil (Fujiwara, 2011;Brollo et al, 2013), France (Eggers, 2015), Germany (Garmann, 2015), Italy (Bordignon et al, 2016;Mocetti, 2016), Morocco (Pellicer and Wegner, 2013), Sweden (Pettersson-Lidbom, 2012;Hinnerich-Tyrefors and Pettersson-Lidbom, 2014) and the United States (Duggan et al, 2016). 2 As noted by Imbens and Lemieux (2008) and Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009), the inferences drawn from regression discontinuity (RD) designs using population thresholds may become invalid when population numbersand thus jurisdictions' self-placementcan be exactly manipulated at the threshold.…”

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Strategic public policy around population thresholds

Witte

Geys

Schönhage

2018

Journal of Urban Economics

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Political economists have long maintained that politicians respond to both (re-)election and financial incentives. This article contributes to the latter literature by analysing whether, when and how local office-holders respond to the economic incentives embedded in exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and remuneration of local politicians. Building on insights from the urban economics and public finance literatures, we argue that local politicians may strategically adjust fiscal and housing policies to stimulate in-migration when approaching a population threshold where their remuneration increases. Using data from all 589 Belgian municipalities over the period 1977-2016, our results confirm that approaching important population thresholds causes lower local tax rates and the granting of additional building permits (particularly for apartments). These policy changes occur early in the election cycle and, at least for housing policy, are restricted to incumbent mayors themselves expecting to benefit from crossing the population threshold.

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Elected or appointed? How the nomination scheme of the city manager influences the effects of government fragmentation

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Overlapping political budget cycles

Overlapping political budget cycles

Competition and Cooperation in Economics and Business

Strategic public policy around population thresholds

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