There is an abundant empirical literature demonstrating party favoritism whereby the central government prone to disburse financial transfers favor aligned local governments. This contrasts with much scarcer evidence on reverse favoritism, i.e. governments offering non-pecuniary support in times of elections. In this paper I show that such exists. To demonstrate it, exploit fact during SARS-CoV...

This article considers whether quota or parity laws designed to improve the representation of women in plurinominal elections have a spillover effect uninominal elections. It tests empirically effects and legislations implemented Ecuador for on proportion elected as mayors. Based an unpublished database, our results show that, after implementation such legislation, probability woman being mayor...

Decentralization and coronavirus - these are the two words that have recently been most often used in information space of Ukraine. Therefore, relevance topic this article is twofold, as it stems from current social political issues addressed fight against fateful reform decentralization power for The purpose an objective analysis process face a serious challenge facing Ukrainian state due to p...

Protected agriculture has notably expanded since 2010 in China and many factors have influenced protected agricultural expansion. Yet little attention been paid to how the successful experiences of demonstration areas diffused. Leading cadres are considered play an important role policy diffusion process, yet influence leading with connections industry regions on development. Thus, this study e...

The Korean local autonomy system has a unique feature in that it grants councils, mayors, and governors the right to submit bills. Because of Korea’s extensive experience with authoritarianism, relative legislative productivity assembly respect head group—that is, person who initiative—has become an evaluation criterion for activities councils Korea. In this study, we address question why indiv...