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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-27)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees' political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. To quantify the effect, we use within-party, as-good-as random variation in close elections in the ...
Do Single-Party and Coalition Governments Differ in their Economic Outcomes? Evidence from Finnish Municipalities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-10-07)
Even though Finland has proportional elections, single-party control in Finnish local councils is not uncommon contrary to what one might expect. The largest party holds more than half of the seats in every third Finnish ...