caa a22 4500 606210237 CHVBK 20210128101032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10101-015-0166-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10101-015-0166-9 Hickey Ross IKBSAS-Unit 8 ART 229, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, 3333 University Way, V1V 1V7, Kelowna, BC, Canada aut Intergovernmental transfers and re-election concerned politicians [Elektronische Daten] [Ross Hickey] This paper provides a non-partisan rationale for intergovernmental transfers: transfers are generated by electoral dynamics and term limits. We formally study re-election concerned politicians in a federal setting with term limits. The theory presented highlights an important aspect of federalism, that voters participate in elections for office holders at multiple levels of government. We augment a standard model of political career concerns to allow for multilevel governance, and to provide a central office holder with the ability to make transfers to a local politician. We find that when elections are staggered, an equilibrium exists with positive transfers. These transfers are made to sabotage political challengers. These transfers are non-partisan and are an artifact of the electoral dynamics as generated by the electoral calendar and politicians' career concerns. We test the implications of the theory using data on transfer receipts of U.S. governors, confirming the importance of election timing and term limits as determinants of transfers. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Elections nationallicence Term limits nationallicence Career concerns nationallicence Federalism nationallicence Intergovernmental transfers nationallicence Economics of Governance Springer Berlin Heidelberg 16/4(2015-11-01), 331-351 1435-6104 16:4<331 2015 16 10101 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-015-0166-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-015-0166-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hickey Ross IKBSAS-Unit 8 ART 229, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, 3333 University Way, V1V 1V7, Kelowna, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Economics of Governance Springer Berlin Heidelberg 16/4(2015-11-01), 331-351 1435-6104 16:4<331 2015 16 10101