The Role of Electoral Interests in the National Distribution of EU Covid-19 Funds

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Romy Hansum
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Expectations are high regarding the impact of the extensive Covid-19 crisis support ‘Next Generation EU’. Mixed experiences from established EU distributive policies indicate, though, that ultimate policy outcomes largely depend on national implementation decisions. This article scrutinises vote-buying strategies according to which domestic governments exploit the largely autonomous national distribution of EU funds to target certain constituencies. To study national strategies, the analysis takes advantage of the extraordinary leeway given to domestic governments in distributing REACT-EU funds, part of Next Generation EU. The encompassing quantitative analysis covers a large sample of member states and committed funds. The regression results provide no support that national governments distribute REACT-EU funds to politically opportune regions. In a departure from most previous analyses focusing on specific member states, these findings suggest that vote buying is not the dominant strategy in the national implementation of all EU funds.

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选举利益在欧盟Covid-19资金国家分配中的作用
人们对广泛支持新冠肺炎危机的“下一代欧盟”的影响抱有很高的期望。然而,欧盟现有分配政策的不同经验表明,最终的政策结果在很大程度上取决于各国的实施决定。本文详细分析了国内政府利用欧盟资金在很大程度上自主的国家分配来瞄准某些选区的贿选策略。为了研究国家战略,该分析利用了各国政府在分配REACT-EU基金(Next Generation EU的一部分)方面的巨大自由度。全面的定量分析涵盖了成员国和承诺资金的大量样本。回归结果不支持各国政府将REACT-EU资金分配给政治上合适的地区。与以往大多数针对特定成员国的分析不同,这些研究结果表明,在所有欧盟基金的国家实施中,贿选并不是主导策略。
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