Local public expenditure in Sweden a model where the median voter is not necessarily decisive |
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Authors: | Thomas Aronsson,Magnus Wikströ m |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economics, University of Umeå, S-90187, Umeå, Sweden |
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Abstract: | This paper deals with local public expenditures, and the analysis is based on cross-section data for the Swedish municipalities. Two models are estimated; one is the basic median voter model where the decisive voter is assumed to be the voter with median income, while the other is a more general statistical alternative. The statistical alternative nests the basic median voter model as a special case, which makes it easy to test the null hypothesis that the basic median voter model is the correct model, given that the alternative is the true general structure. Although our results indicate a rejection of the null hypothesis, the estimation results are, nevertheless, similar for the two models. |
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Keywords: | Local public expenditures Median voter model |
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