Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)In: Journal of Public Economics, ISSN 0047-2727, E-ISSN 1879-2316, Vol. 230, article id 105017Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2024
Keywords
Government stability, Government formation, Political alignment, Inter-governmental relations
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-522273 (URN)10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105017 (DOI)001142554600001 ()
Funder
The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, P2017-0185
2024-02-052024-02-052024-02-05Bibliographically approved