Political Accountability and Government Expenditure-Focusing on the Korea Local Government from 2002 to 2008
This paper aims to analyze how political factors affect the private transfer expenditure in local policy making process. We focus on the political competition, partisanship, and local governors career as political aspects. These political factors are considered as independent variables and the private transfer expenditure as dependent variable. In addition, we examine the effect of financial dependency moderating the relationship between political factors and local government expenditure, using threshold analysis based on Hansen(1996, 1999) sampling splitting method. It is required that we analyze the change of budgeting which depends on fiscal interaction between central and local government-local financial dependency, because local fiscal dependency implies not only the soft budget constraints but also the effect of monitoring and control by central government. As literature suggested, there are effects from political factors on the private transfer expenditures. However, these effects depend on the level of fiscal dependency. Although each political factor has the different effect, in high fiscal dependency, local government have both tendency to increase the expenditure as fiscal illusion and to decrease the expenditures through monitoring and controlling by central government. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the different incentive system depending on the financial conditions. Also, reinforcement of political accountability in local government is needed for their residents and central government.
Moon, Kwang-min Yang, JiSook Lee, Hee Sun
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University in Republic of Korea
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
19-29
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）