The Vote, The Politics and the interjurisdictional Transfers: The Romanian Case

Mutascu, Mihai (2008): The Vote, The Politics and the interjurisdictional Transfers: The Romanian Case. Published in: Caiet de drept international , Vol. 6, (20 November 2008): pp. 785-790.

Abstract

This paper represents a continuation of a previous paper, Mutaşcu & Dima (2005), where we demonstrated the “abnormal” behavior that local authority from Romania is manifesting regarding the subventions received from the central budget. In accord with public choice theory, exist an “affinity” of a social group - local communities in this case - for a certain political party or political coalition, in which case can expect that the distribution of public funds, having the nature of transfers given by the central budget to local budgets, to be impregnated with a considerable “political color”. This paper is trying to establish, in Romania, quantitative and qualitative, the modality of distributing the central public funds to local authorities under the political impact.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Politic, voter, local financing
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E62 - Fiscal Policy; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D70 - General; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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