Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election choices are subject to small random distortions. Furthermore, equity and efficiency arguments for uniform policies in centralized systems are derived as these are likely to result in the better overall performance of politicians and in more equal performance across regions.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Social Science Research Network

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JUE.2009.09.005
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