We study sequential voting buying games in which an outsider, called the principal, sequentially attempts to capture committee members with opposite preferences before they make a decision through generalized majority voting. By characterizing the equilibria, we show that the amount of bribes...

This study examines the effect of political alignment on the political budget cycle in multi-level local governments (municipal and regional governments). The central government may increase transfers to politically unaligned municipalities before local elections if (1) these municipalities are...