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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 ...
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms
(Elsevier, 2016)
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 ...
Primary Effect in Open-List Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-07)
We study how political parties select political leaders. Using regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that parties use vote ranks to decide upon promotions. Moreover, we show that ...
Kuntien sääntelyn periaatteet
(Valtioneuvoston kanslia, 2016-04-26)
Tässä raportissa arvioidaan kuntien tehtäviä koskevaa sääntelyä kolmesta näkökulmasta. Ensimmäisessä osassa tarkastellaan kuinka kuntien velvoitteita voidaan analysoida taloustieteellisen arviointikehikon puitteissa. ...