Targeted government spending and political preferences

Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-320

  Pop Eleches, Cristian ^a   Pop Eleches, Grigore ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863516608     PISSN: 15540626     EISSN: 15540634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/100.00011017     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Alvarez, M. and J. Saving. 1997. "Deficits, Democrats, and Distributive Benefits: Congressional Elections and the Pork Barrel in the 1980s." Political Research Quarterly 50(4): 809-831. (Pubitemid 127176822)
2. Anderson, C. J. 2007. "The End of Economic Voting? Contingency Dilemmas and the Limits of Democratic Accountability." Annual Review of Political Science 10: 271-296.
3. Anderson L., M. Lewis-Beck, and M. Stegmaier. 2003. "Post-socialist Democratization: A Comparative Political Economy Model of the Vote for Hungary and Nicaragua." Electoral Studies 22(3): 469-484. (Pubitemid 36821768)
4. Ansolabehere, S. and J. M. Snyder Jr. 2006. "Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108(4): 547-569. (Pubitemid 46029741)
5. Bruhn, K. 1996. "Social Spending and Political Support: The "Lessons" of the National Solidarity Program in Mexico." Comparative Politics 28(2): 151-177.
6. Conover, P. J., S. Feldman, and K. Knight. 1986. "Judging Inflation and Unemployment: The Origins of Retrospective Evaluations." Journal of Politics 48: 565-588.
7. Dahlberg, M. and E. Johansson. 2002. "On the Vote-Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments." American Political Science Review 96: 27-40.
8. De la O, A. 2010. "Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico." Mimeo.
9. DiNardo, J. and D. S. Lee. 2004. "Economic Impacts of New Unionization On Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(4): 1383-1441. (Pubitemid 39636918)
10. Duch, R. 2001. "A Developmental Model of Heterogeneous Economic Voting in New Democracies." American Political Science Review 98(4): 895-910. (Pubitemid 33571348)
11. Elinder, M., H. Jordahl, and P. Poutvaara. 2008. "Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting." CESifo WP 2489.
12. Feldman, S. 1985. "Economic Self-interest and the Vote: Evidence and Meaning." In Economic Conditions and Electoral Outcomes: The United States and Western Europe, Heinz Eulan and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, (eds.), New York: Agathon Press.
13. Fidrmuc, J. 2000. "Economics of Voting in Post-communist Countries." Electoral Studies 19(2/3): 199-217. (Pubitemid 30218511)
14. Fiorina, M. P. 1981. Retrospective Voting in American National Elections. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
15. Gerber, A. S. and D. P. Green. 2008. "Field Experiments and Natural Experiments." In Handbook of Political Methodology, Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, H. E. Brady, and D. Collier, (eds.), pp. 357-381, New York: Oxford University Press.
16. Green, D. P. and A. S. Gerber. 2003. "The Underprovision of Experiments in Political and Social Science." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 589(1): 94-112. (Pubitemid 37089335)
17. Hahn, J., T. Petra, and W. van der Klaauw. 2001. "Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression Discontinuity Design." Econometrica 69(1): 201-209. (Pubitemid 33635744)
18. Harper M. 2000. "Economic Voting in Postcommunist Eastern Europe." Comparative Political Studies 33(9): 1191-1227. (Pubitemid 33244363)
19. Hibbs D. 1993. Solidarity or Egoism? Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.
20. Imbens, G. and K. Kalyanaraman. 2009. "Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator." NBER Working Paper No. 14726.
21. Kiewiet, D. R. 1983. Macroeconomics and Micropolitics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
22. Kramer, G. 1983. "The Ecological Fallacy Revisited: Aggregate- versus Individual-level Findings on Economics and Elections, and Sociotropic Voting." American Political Science Review 77(1): 92-111.
23. Lewis-Beck, M. 1988. Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
24. Lewis-Beck, M. 1997. "Who's the Chief? Economic Voting Under a Dual Executive." European Journal of Political Research 31(3): 315-325.
25. Lewis-Beck, M. and M. Stegmaier. 2000. "Economic Determinants of Electoral Outcomes." Annual Review Political Science 3(1): 183-219.
26. Levitt, S. D. and J. M. Snyder. 1997. "The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes." Journal of Political Economy 105(1): 30-53. (Pubitemid 127575270)
27. Malamud, O. and C. Pop-Eleches. 2008. "The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes." Columbia mimeo.
28. Malamud, O. and C. Pop-Eleches. 2011. "Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital." Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(2): 987-1027.
29. Manacorda, M., M. Edward, and A. Vigorito. 2011. "Government Transfers and Political Support." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(3): 1-28.
30. McCrary, J. 2007. "Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test." NBER Technical Working Papers 0334.
31. Nannestad, P. and M. Paldam. 1997. "From the Pocketbook of the Welfare Man: A Pooled Cross-section Study of Economic Voting in Denmark, 1986-1992." British Journal of Political Science 27(1): 119-137.
32. Pacek, A. 1994. "Macroeconomic Conditions and Electoral Politics in East Central Europe." American Journal of Political Science 38(3): 723-744.
33. Pacek, A. and B. Radcliff. 1995. "The Political Economy of Competitive Elections in the Developing World." American Journal of Political Science (39)3: 745-759.
34. Pacek, A., G. Pop-Eleches, and J. Tucker. 2009. "Disenchanted or Discerning: Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries." The Journal of Politics 71(2): 473-491.
35. Peffley, M., S. Feldman, and L. Sigelman. 1987. "Economic Conditions and Party Competence: Processes of Belief Revision." The Journal of Politics (49): 100-121.
36. Persson, T., G. Roland, and G. Tabellini. 2000. "Comparative Politics and Public Finance." Journal of Political Economy 108: 1121-1161. (Pubitemid 32120015)
37. Porter, J. 2003. "Estimation in the Regression Discontinuity Model." mimeo.
38. Powers, D. and J. Cox. 2000. "Echoes from the Past: The Relationship between Satisfaction with Economic Reforms and Voting Behavior in Poland." American Political Science Review 91(3): 617-633. (Pubitemid 127174514)
39. Richter, K. 2006. "Wage Arrears and Economic Voting in Russia." American Political Science Review 100(1): 133-145. (Pubitemid 43388712)
40. Samuels, D. J. 2002. "Pork Barreling is not Credit Claiming or Advertising: Campaign Finance and the Sources of the Personal Vote in Brazil." The Journal of Politics 64(3): 845-863.
41. Stein, R. M. and K. Bickers. 1994. "Congressional Elections and the Pork Barrel." The Journal of Politics 56(2): 377-399.
42. Tucker, J. 2006. Comparative Economic Voting: Economic Conditions and Election Results in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia from 1990-1999. New York: Cambridge University Press.
43. Tufte, E. 1978. Political Control of the Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
44. Weyland, K. 1998. "Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Sources of Popular Support for Neoliberal Reform in Latin America." Comparative Political Studies 31(5): 539-567.