caa a22 4500 477077897 CHVBK 20180405111443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00130418 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00130418 Pereira Paulo Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Miguel Lúpi 20, P-1200, Lisboa, Portugal aut A politico-economic approach to intergovernmental lump-sum grants [Elektronische Daten] [Paulo Pereira] This paper develops a positive approach to grant design when the central government and a lobby of local governments are the main agents. It develops the hypothesis that the regressivity or progressivity of per capita grants regarding community size is,ceteris paribus, related to the structure of the lobbying activities of local governments and is independent of hypothetical economies or diseconomies of scale in the production of local public goods. An encompassing lobby organisation using a "one mayor one vote” system of representation supports the regressivity of per capita grants while under "proportional” representation the lobby will support a design of per capita grants which is progressive towards community size. An empirical analysis of lump-sum grants in Portugal supports the politico-economic hypothesis and rejects the hypothesis that economies of scale is the main explanatory cause for the observed regressivity of per capita grants. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/1-2(1996-07-01), 185-201 0048-5829 88:1-2<185 1996 88 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130418 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130418 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pereira Paulo Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Technical University of Lisbon, Rua Miguel Lúpi 20, P-1200, Lisboa, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/1-2(1996-07-01), 185-201 0048-5829 88:1-2<185 1996 88 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer