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Budgetary policy with unified and decentralized appropriations authority

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dc.contributor.authorDharmapala, Anurudha
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:41:02Z
dc.date.available2015-12-13T22:41:02Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T09:58:49Z
dc.description.abstractThe divestiture of the House Appropriations Committee in the 1880's has received considerable attention of an empirical nature. This paper presents a formal model of legislative decisionmaking, using a common agency formulation to represent interest group lobbying of legislators. This framework is used to analyze the effects of decentralizing appropriations authority. The conditions under which decentralization leads to higher spending are characterized. It is argued that the conventional view that divestiture caused higher levels of spending only holds if decentralization created barriers to lobbying and political bargaining across different committees. In addition, the role of specialized committee knowledge is examined.
dc.identifier.issn0048-5829
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/78318
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers
dc.sourcePublic Choice
dc.titleBudgetary policy with unified and decentralized appropriations authority
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage367
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage347
local.contributor.affiliationDharmapala, Anurudha, College of Business and Economics, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidDharmapala, Anurudha, u9714736
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor140212 - Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub6983
local.identifier.citationvolume115
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0038759245
local.type.statusPublished Version

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