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Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-24)
We analyze how (anticipated) changes in the competitiveness of the seats of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The competitiveness of the seats changes because the merger changes the ...
Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-11)
We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...
Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-12-27)
We analyze free-riding behavior by Finnish municipalities prior to municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, which arises because of a delay from the initial merger decision to the ...
Coalition formation and political decision making: Evidence from Finnish municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-20)
This paper analyzes empirically the coalition formation of local governments. We introduce a novel econometric strategy involving choice based sampling from a spatial network to allow for multi-partner mergers in our ...