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Partisan Politics in Regional Redistribution: Do Parties Affect the Distribution of EU Structural Funds across Regions?
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Abstract The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional literat... mehr
The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional literature on partisan politics and national redistribution to the case of the EU. We use a new data set on both the distribution of Structural Funds across regions and the distribution of vote shares for different factions of the European Parliament. These data provide empirical details for some of the partisan competition that takes place at the regional level. Specifically, we show that the traditional left vs. right cleavage can have an impact on the size of regional transfers.... weniger
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Europapolitik
Öffentliche Finanzen und Finanzwissenschaft
Freie Schlagwörter
fiscal federalism; partisan politics; redistribution; structural funds;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 373-392
Zeitschriftentitel
European Union Politics, 7 (2006) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116506066264
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)