Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Geys, Benny"
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Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Subnational Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
Asatryan, Zareh; Feld, Lars P.; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending decisions then ... -
Partisan Bias in Politicians’ Perception of Scandals
schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Do politicians perceive scandals differently when they implicate members of their own party rather than another party? We address this question using a between-subject survey experiment, whereby we randomly assign UK local ... -
Partisanship, Blame Avoidance Behaviours and Voter Reactions to Allegations of Political Misconduct
Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Politicians often engage in blame avoidance behaviours in order to evade electoral punishment following allegations of misconduct. A key question concerns the (in)effectiveness of such behaviours in mitigating voter opinions ... -
Party Cues and Incumbent Assessments under Multilevel Governance
Geys, Benny; schönhage, Nanna Lauritz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Politicians' party membership allows voters to overcome incomplete information issues. In this article, we maintain that such ‘party cues’ in multilevel governance structures also induce voters to incorporate their assessment ... -
Party Cues in Elections under Multi-Level Governance: Theory and Evidence from US States
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)In federal countries, voters’ ability to evaluate the performance of their leaders might be reduced when different levels of government shape policy outcomes. This can blur political accountability. In this article, we ... -
Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism
Geys, Benny; Hernæs, Øystein Marianssønn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this article, we study the political implications of terrorism rooted in extremist political ideologies. Our data uniquely allow studying the potential role of party leader evaluations on political outcomes, including ... -
Patriotism, taxation and international mobility
Qari, Salmai; Konrad, Kai A.; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Patriotic citizens intrinsically prefer living in their native country compared to living in the Diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the consequences of such a “patriotic lock-in” in a world with international migration ... -
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019)
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ... -
Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay
Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats’ pay. We study such private gains to bureaucrats ... -
Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts
Titl, Vitezslav; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We study whether and when firms’ donations to political parties induce favouritism in public procurement allocations. Our analysis builds on a unique, comprehensive dataset covering all public procurement contracts and all ... -
Political Donations, Public Procurement and Government Efficiency
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny; Titl, Vitezslav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Public procurement markets are worth 10–15% of global GDP. Recent empirical evidence suggests that firms’ political donations can induce important distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this ... -
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles
Geys, Benny; Smith, Daniel Markham (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of ... -
Political Dynasties, Electoral Institutions and Politicians’ Human Capital
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article focuses on political dynasties’ potential consequences, and particularly investigates whether and when they lead to the selection of dynastic politicians with relatively lower education levels. I exploit the ... -
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand
Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Geys, Benny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Scandals can cause serious damage to political parties’ brand name and reputation, which may taint all members of the party—even those not implicated in the scandal. In this article, we therefore explore how (uninvolved) ... -
The Politics of Distributing Blame and Credit: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Norwegian Local Politicians
Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Bækgaard, Martin; Geys, Benny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)How do politicians attribute responsibility for good and poor policy outcomes across multiple stakeholders in a policy field where they themselves can affect service provision? Such ‘diffusion’ decisions are crucial to ... -
A Post-politics Earnings Penalty? Evidence from Politicians’ Life-time Income Trajectories (1970-2019)
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Politicians are commonly believed to gain financially from holding and/or having held office. We argue that there may often also be economic downsides to pursuing a political career, and investigate whether and when ... -
Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing the Substantive Effects of Passive Representation
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In many countries, public sector employees are eligible to hold political offices during their employment as civil servants. This often triggers conflict-of-interest concerns that elected public employees might sway policies ... -
Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny; Solondz, Catharina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article argues that resource expansion can fail to improve actual student performance because it might cause educators to soften grading standards (i.e., induce grade inflation). Our theoretical model shows that, ... -
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Does working in the public rather than the private sector have a causal effect on electoral participation? Extant evidence using cross-sectional survey data remains unpersuasive due to data limitations and concerns posed ... -
Public Support for European Fiscal Integration in Times of Crisis
Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The current economic crisis has triggered fierce debates among policy-makers and the media across and within European countries about the need for a closer European Fiscal Union. Using a novel dataset derived from the ...