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Vote Buying Through Resource Allocation in a Government Controlled Sector

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  • Morten Bennedsen

    (Copenhagen Business School, CEBR and CIE)

Abstract

Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or candidates converge to a common position. In this paper I show how political polarization can be generated in models that focus on the nexus between pre-election interest group lobbying and electoral competition.

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  • Morten Bennedsen, 2003. "Vote Buying Through Resource Allocation in a Government Controlled Sector," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, vol. 93(1), pages 49-78, January-F.
    • Handle: RePEc:rpo:ripoec:v:93:y:2003:i:1:p:49-78
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    1. Francisco Antonio Sousa De Araujo & Paulo De Melo Jorge Neto, 2016. "Competição Política, Grupos De Interesse E A Oferta De Serviços Públicos: Uma Análise Para Os Municípios Cearenses Nos Anos De 2005 E 2009," Anais do XLII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 42nd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 064, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].

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    JEL classification:

    • D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out

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