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Dominik Schraff
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PublicationPartisan Pork Barrel in Multilevel Systems: The Constituency-Level Allocation of European Regional Development Funds in Italy and France( 2015-12-11)
;Dellmuth, Lisa MariaStoffel, Michael F.Recent years have witnessed increasing scholarly interest in the domestic use of European Union (EU) Structural Funds for pork barrel projects. While regional governments are commonly ascribed a significant role in the domestic implementation of the EU budget, their influence on the local allocation of Structural Funds should be limited when regions lack own revenues necessary to co-finance Structural Funds. Hence, under unitary government, national governments should be in control of the political targeting of local projects. Using a statistical analysis of an original data set on local Structural Funds allocations across 202 local districts and 41 regions in Italy and France from 2007 to 2013, we demonstrate how national governments use EU funds for pork barrel projects in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems. The results contribute to the literature on resource distribution in the EU and further our understanding of the influence of regional government on European and international policy outcomes.Type: conference paper -
PublicationType: conference paper