Does Congressional experience in US governors influence state transfers?
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Career experience; Personal characteristics; Transfers; Congress; Leaders;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-POL-2018-09-17 (Positive Political Economics)
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