Does political turnover adversely affect the state expenditure policy? Evidence from Indian state legislative elections
نویسنده
چکیده
I examine the effect of political turnover on government expenditure policy in Indian state legislatures during 1980-2000. Much similar to arguments for term limits, greater turnover of elected may weaken their hold on the office, and hence, forces them to be more competent. However, a counter-argument is that greater turnover shortens an elected official’s expected stay in the office, which gives him or her more incentive to pursue policies with shorter horizons to show competency. I find evidence for the latter argument in Indian state legislative elections. The states with greater political turnover spend more per capita compared to states with less turnover. Also, greater political turnover skews the government policies towards expenditures that are unproductive in nature and have shorter gestation period at the expense of long-term and welfare increasing expenditures. ∗Department of Economics, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA. Email: [email protected]
منابع مشابه
“Hearing from All Sides” How Legislative Testimony Influences State Level Policy-Makers in the United States
Background This paper investigates whether state legislators find testimony influential, to what extent testimony influences policy-makers’ decisions, and defines the features of testimony important in affecting policy-makers’ decisions. Methods We used a mixed method approach to analyze responses from 862 state-level legislators in the United States (U.S.). Data were collected via a phone su...
متن کاملLegislative Bargaining with Changing Political Power
This paper studies legislative negotiations between two parties whose political power changes over time. The model has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium, which becomes very tractable when parties can make offers frequently. This tractability facilitates studying how changes in political power affect implemented policies. An extension of the baseline model analyses how elections influence leg...
متن کاملHas the Public Health System Provided Adequate Financial Risk Protection for Child Birth Conditions – Evidences From an Eastern Indian State
Over the years, national and sub-national governments have introduced several initiatives to improve access to maternal and child health services in India. However, financial barriers have posed major constraints. Based upon the data of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) round 4 for Odisha state, our paper examines the out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) borne by households for accessing materna...
متن کاملDoes an Economic and Political Affairs Matter in Determining the Tax Revenue of Jammu and Kashmir State (India): An Approach through VECM Model
T he state of Jammu & Kashmir is one of the special category states of India, that faces a severe resource crunch on the one hand and an explosive public expenditure trend on the other hand. The inability of the state government to raise adequate resources of its own cast’s serious doubt about the tax efforts carried out by the government from time to time. Against this background, t...
متن کامل