We study how partisan alignment across levels of government affects coalition formation and government stability using a regression discontinuity design and a large dataset of Spanish municipal elections. We document a positive effect of alignment on both government formation and stability. Alignment increases the probability that the most-voted party appoints the mayor and decreases the probability that the government is unseated during the term. Aligned parties also obtain sizeable electoral gains in the next elections. We show that these findings are not the consequence of favoritism in the allocation of transfers towards aligned governments.
Carozzi, F., Cipullo, D., Repetto, L., Powers that be? Political alignment, government formation, and government stability, <<JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS>>, 2024; 230 (N/A): N/A-N/A. [doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105017] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/261397]
Powers that be? Political alignment, government formation, and government stability
Cipullo, Davide;
2024
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We study how partisan alignment across levels of government affects coalition formation and government stability using a regression discontinuity design and a large dataset of Spanish municipal elections. We document a positive effect of alignment on both government formation and stability. Alignment increases the probability that the most-voted party appoints the mayor and decreases the probability that the government is unseated during the term. Aligned parties also obtain sizeable electoral gains in the next elections. We show that these findings are not the consequence of favoritism in the allocation of transfers towards aligned governments.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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