Data and Code for: "Organized voters: Elections and public funding of nonprofits"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Camille Urvoy, University of Mannheim

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Project Citation:

Urvoy, Camille. Data and Code for: “Organized voters: Elections and public funding of nonprofits.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207766V1

Project Description

Summary:

What makes politicians respond to civil society organizations’ demands? I use new data on government transfers to French associations and exploit close elections to show that politicians grant more funds to ideologically close organizations when the local incumbent is a political ally and was elected by a small margin. The results are consistent with politicians and organizations exchanging financial support for electoral support. Organizations secure funding because of the votes they can deliver, not because of their campaign contributions; however the fact that transfers appear to be conditioned on support may undermine their ability to help hold politicians accountable.
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Funding Sources: Support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through CRC TR 224 (Project B05) is gratefully acknowledged.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: civil society organizations; elections; distributive politics; clientelism

JEL Classification:
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
L31 Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship

Geographic Coverage: france

Time Period(s): 2005 – 2016

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V1 [2025-01-15]

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