IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cor/louvrp/447.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Local government expenditures in Belgium: do political distinctions matter?

Author

Listed:
  • GINSBURGH, Victor
  • PESTIEAU, Pierre

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to test whether public spending by local communities in Belgium is influenced by local politics. Unlike previous studies which are briefly surveyed, we test alternative models of the local budgetary decision, and systematically favour the one which includes political variables. In spite of this deliberate bias, political factors influence neither the level nor the structure of local public spending in Belgium. This may imply little differentiation among parties at the local level, rather than institutional constraints. Copyright © 1981, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Suggested Citation

  • GINSBURGH, Victor & PESTIEAU, Pierre, 1981. "Local government expenditures in Belgium: do political distinctions matter?," LIDAM Reprints CORE 447, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:447
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1981.tb00597.x
    Note: In : European Journal of Political Research, 9, 169-179, 1981
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1981.tb00597.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1981.tb00597.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:447. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Alain GILLIS (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/coreebe.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.