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Building consensus: Shifting strategies in the territorial targeting of Turkey's public transport investment

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  • Davide Luca
  • Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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A growing amount of research explores how the allocation of regional development monies follows electoral reasons. Yet, the existing literature on distributive politics provides different and contrasting expectations on which geographical areas will be targeted. We focus on proportional representation (PR) systems. While in such settings governments have incentives to target core districts and punish foes', we suggest that when incumbents attempt to build a state-party image they may broaden the territorial allocation of benefits and even target opposition out-groups. We exploit data on Turkey's public transport investment for the period 2003-2014 and in-depth interviews to provide results in support of our hypothesis.

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  • Davide Luca & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, 2019. "Building consensus: Shifting strategies in the territorial targeting of Turkey's public transport investment," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1910, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Apr 2019.
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

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