Political Factors of Distribution of Intergovernmental Transfers among Municipalities of the Subnational Units in the North-Western Federal District in 2006 - 2015

Student: Vorobyev Artemiy

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This paper is an attempt to analyse political factors of distribution of intergovernmental transfers among municipalities. The empirical analysis based on suсh approaches as "economic theory of democracy" and the model of the "political business cycle," conducted a situational impact of the results of federal and regional elections in municipalities to transfers' sizes from the middle 2000-s and till our days.

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