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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation: evidence from the U.S. welfare reform

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We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors with st...

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Main Authors: Bernecker, Andreas (Author) , Boyer, Pierre C. (Author) , Gathmann, Christina (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Munich CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute 2018
Edition:This version: March 19, 2018
Series:CESifo working paper Category 1, Public finance no. 6964
In: CESifo working papers (no. 6964)

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Online Access:Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/176983
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Author Notes:Andreas Bernecker, Pierre C. Boyer, Christina Gathmann
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