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Abstract
Is electoral support related to the quality of public goods provision? Does the dictum to deliver votes to the federal center harm local governance, or do better outcomes result in better opportunities to improve quality of governance? Our research contributes to the existing literature in the following ways: 1) we explore the variety of governance patterns on the understudied level of Russian municipalities, using the dataset of local statistical indicators for all municipalities starting from 2012 to 2018; 2) we estimate the effects of budget autonomy and electoral loyalty at the federal elections on public goods provision; 3) we explore whether elected heads provide local services. Our findings suggest that electoral loyalty does not uniformly improve public goods provision in municipalities, while elected heads also have limited capacity to provide better services.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Europe - Asia Studies |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 6 |
Pages (from-to) | 1037-1059 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISSN | 0966-8136 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Jul 2021 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Fields of Science
- 6160 Other humanities
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- 5171 Political Science
- public goods provision
- local governance
- United Russia
- voting
- mayors
- political machines
Projects
- 1 Finished
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ElMaRB: Electoral Malpractice, Cyber-security, and Political Consequences in Russia and Beyond
Gorbacheva, E. (Participant), Zavadskaya, M. (Project manager), Caras, V. S. (Participant) & Lambin, V. (Participant)
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2022
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project