Bremer, Björn; Di Carlo, Donato; Wansleben, Leon - 2021
partisanship on German districts’ investment spending from 1995 to 2018. We find that the lack of fiscal and administrative … capacity significantly influences local investment patterns. Yet, within these constraints, partisanship matters. Conservative … even within cooperative federalist systems and show that, despite rigid fiscal rules, partisanship matters when parties …