imperfect and may be distorted by the parties. Efficiency is shown to be consistent with courts adjudicating on the basis of the …

than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties. We use a rich Spanish database containing … effects of grants given to aligned and unaligned municipalities on the vote share of the incumbent party/parties at the … grants given to opposition parties do not bring any votes, suggesting that the grantee reaps as much political credit from …

research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines …