Young Scholar Workshop No.8

青年学者报告会第8期

Title/题目: 

Partisan Politics in the Fiscal Relationship between American Subnational Governments

美国州和地方政府间财政关系中的党派政治

Time/时间: 

12:30-13:30 (Beijing Time), Nov 8th

北京时间11月8日12:30-13:30

Speaker/主讲人: 

Assis. Prof. Wenchi Wei, Renmin University of China

魏文池助理教授中国人民大学

Host/主持人:

Prof. Mark D. Robbins，Fudan University

马克· 罗宾斯讲座教授复旦大学

Discussant/评论人: 

Prof. Ping Zhang， Fudan University

张平教授复旦大学

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Wenchi Wei is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. Wenchi Wei’s research focuses on government budgeting and finance, public sector performance management, and public policy evaluation. His research has been published by prestigious academic journals such as JPART, PAR, Governance, ARPA, PMR, Public Choice, Chinese Public Administration (in Chinese), Journal of Public Administration (in Chinese), and China Public Administration Review (in Chinese). He has received research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation and Beijing Social Science Foundation.

魏文池，中国人民大学公共管理学院助理教授。主要研究领域为政府预算与财政、公共部门绩效管理、公共政策评估等。其已在中英文公共管理领域期刊JPART、PAR、Governance、ARPA、PMR、Public Choice、《中国行政管理》、《公共行政评论》、《公共管理评论》等发表论文共近二十篇。主持国家自科、北京市社科等研究课题多项。

讲座内容/ Abstract:

This study examines how partisan alignment between county legislators and the state government can affect intergovernmental fiscal transfers, testing the ally and anti-ally hypotheses. Theoretically, politically motivated state politicians would allocate more fiscal resources to counties with aligned local politicians, thereby reducing policy coordination costs. Nevertheless, state politicians may exploit partisan alignment to alleviate rat races among county politicians for state-held common-pool fiscal resources. Regression discontinuity analyses utilizing a dataset covering county legislative elections spanning 1970-2016 show that partisan alignment reduces per capita state-county fiscal transfers by 2.1%-5.5%, and this effect is contingent upon the power structure of county councils and the resource abundance of state governments.

本研究主要关注党派政治对美国州对地方政府财政转移支付的影响。研究收集美国地方政府选举数据，采用准实验研究设计。研究发现，州与地方政府党派协同会降低政府间转移支付。另外，这种影响取决于州政府的财政能力和地方政府内部的权力结构。