Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest

This study seeks to empirically determine to what extent continual protest by regionalist parties may generate revenue for their regions. To this end, we perform an econometric estimation using the collaboration agreements between Spanish governments and the autonomous communities as the dependent v...

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Autores: Atienza Montero, Pedro, Hierro Recio, Luis Ángel, Gómez-Álvarez Díaz, Rosario
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Palavra-chave:regionalism
asymmetrical federalism
Hirschman
pork barrel
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spelling Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protestAtienza Montero, PedroHierro Recio, Luis ÁngelGómez-Álvarez Díaz, Rosarioregionalismasymmetrical federalismHirschmanpork barrelThis study seeks to empirically determine to what extent continual protest by regionalist parties may generate revenue for their regions. To this end, we perform an econometric estimation using the collaboration agreements between Spanish governments and the autonomous communities as the dependent variable (first-level political and administrative divisions, CCAA in their Spanish initials). We test our hypothesis by analogously applying the economic specifications employed in studies of "pork barrel politics", including control variables regarding per capita income, regional financing systems, political variables such as support for regional governments from the same political party or the existence of pivot parties. The results support the theoretical conclusions reached by Treisman (1999), namely that non-sovereignist regionalism generates revenue while sovereignist nationalism or regionalism leads governments to react by applying unfavourable treatment. Similarly, the fact that a regionalist party plays a key role in the investiture of the national president brings with it even greater revenue to the region in question, concurring with the results predicted by Brancati (2008).Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Estructura e Historia Económicas y Economía PúblicaEconomía e Historia Económica2017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/83644reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/836442026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
title Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
spellingShingle Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
Atienza Montero, Pedro
regionalism
asymmetrical federalism
Hirschman
pork barrel
title_short Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
title_full Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
title_fullStr Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
title_full_unstemmed Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
title_sort Asymmetrical treatment and revenue from regional protest
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Atienza Montero, Pedro
Hierro Recio, Luis Ángel
Gómez-Álvarez Díaz, Rosario
author Atienza Montero, Pedro
author_facet Atienza Montero, Pedro
Hierro Recio, Luis Ángel
Gómez-Álvarez Díaz, Rosario
author_role author
author2 Hierro Recio, Luis Ángel
Gómez-Álvarez Díaz, Rosario
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Economía e Historia Económica
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv regionalism
asymmetrical federalism
Hirschman
pork barrel
topic regionalism
asymmetrical federalism
Hirschman
pork barrel
description This study seeks to empirically determine to what extent continual protest by regionalist parties may generate revenue for their regions. To this end, we perform an econometric estimation using the collaboration agreements between Spanish governments and the autonomous communities as the dependent variable (first-level political and administrative divisions, CCAA in their Spanish initials). We test our hypothesis by analogously applying the economic specifications employed in studies of "pork barrel politics", including control variables regarding per capita income, regional financing systems, political variables such as support for regional governments from the same political party or the existence of pivot parties. The results support the theoretical conclusions reached by Treisman (1999), namely that non-sovereignist regionalism generates revenue while sovereignist nationalism or regionalism leads governments to react by applying unfavourable treatment. Similarly, the fact that a regionalist party plays a key role in the investiture of the national president brings with it even greater revenue to the region in question, concurring with the results predicted by Brancati (2008).
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