Performance competition in local media markets

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Revelli, Federico
• 署名单位: University of Turin
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.02.006
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1585-1594
• 关键词: yardstick competition; property tax; performance rating; local elections

摘要

This paper investigates the impact of tax and public service performance on English local government popularity by using data on local property taxes, service performance ratings and local election results after the introduction of a system of evaluation of local government performance (Comprehensive Performance Assessment). The evidence emerging from estimation of a re-election equation offers a somewhat more rounded portrait of the voter than the conventional fiscal conservative icon, by highlighting the beneficial consequences of public service performance on government popularity and pointing to the role of local media networks (the BBC regional television, local radio and web network) in shaping consensus by spreading tax-related information. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.