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Dominik Schraff
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PublicationType: conference paper
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PublicationBuying Turnout or Rewarding Loyalists? : Electoral Mobilization and EU Structural Funding in the German LänderThis paper elaborates on the role of electoral mobilization in the allocation of EU structural funding. Revising recent findings on the German Länder, I show that stronghold regions with a high level of electoral mobilization receive more money. This strategy is conceptualized as ‘rewarding loyalists'. I argue that due to temporally stable turnout levels, incumbents have incentives to favor stronghold regions with high turnout rates. Hence, incumbents use differences in the level of electoral mobilization to make distributive decisions among their many core constituencies. To test for spatial interdependencies and autocorrelation, I use a spatial autoregressive model as a robustness check. Even though the data shows spatial interdependencies, the results remain the same.Type: conference paper