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Non-tax revenue and subnational democracy
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Non-tax revenue and subnational democracy
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evidence from Colombia
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Keller
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Lukas Konstantin
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1987-
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Lukas Keller
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Cesar
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Cesar Zucco
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chair
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Davis
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Eric M
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Eric M Davis
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internal member
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Kaufman
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Robert R
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Robert R Kaufman
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-05
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An influential group of political economists posits a negative relationship between the relative size of non-tax revenues in public balance sheets and the level of democracy in a given county. While empirical evidence for this proposition is largely based on cross-national studies, scholars have largely neglected subnational contexts as important domains of research. Addressing this disjuncture, the author studies the electoral impact of two important subnational non-tax revenues - natural resource royalties and central-government fiscal transfers - at the municipal level in Colombia. Employing a propensity score matching approach to attenuate problems of omitted variable bias, a quantitative analysis of Colombia's 1119 municipalities shows that higher levels of fiscal transfers and petroleum royalties had no discernible impact on the average level of competitiveness in the 2007 and 2011 municipal elections. If anything, there seems to be a positive impact of non-tax revenues on electoral contestation. Supported by qualitative evidence from theoretical outliers in the set of observations, the results suggest that non-tax revenue promotes electoral competition by raising the stakes of attaining political office. At the same time, abundance in fiscal transfers and resource royalties may undermine democratic governance through means that are not reflected in electoral margins.
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Political Science
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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v, 52 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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by Lukas Konstantin Keller
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Resource curse--Colombia
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Revenue--Colombia
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Democracy--Colombia
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000068894
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doi:10.7282/T30P0XM7
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Keller
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Lukas
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2013-04-17 23:08:22
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Lukas Keller
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2013-05-31
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2015-05-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 31st, 2015.
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