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The Provision of Public Goods Under Alternative Electoral Incentives
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Politicians who care about the spoils of office may underprovide a public good because its benefits cannot be targeted to voters as easily as pork-barrel spending. We compare a winner-take-all system—where all the spoils go to the winner—to a proportional system—where the spoils of office are split among candidates proportionally to their share of the vote. In a winner-take-all system the public good is provided less often than in a proportional system when the public good is particularly desirable. We then consider the electoral college system and show that it is particularly subject to this inefficiency. (JEL D82, L15)
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- Authors
- Lizzeri, A., & Persico, N.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2001-03-01
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 225-239
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
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- W2007674873
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- 51.01
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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