英文摘要 |
Intergovernmental development grants have been conventionally explained on the basis of efficiency or equity. This paper seeks to empirically examine the influence of political party on Taiwan intergovernmental grants by including not only traditional public finance variables but also public choice variables. According to the fundamentals of public choice, grants are used by legislators to by own political capital in order to enhance the probability of re-election, and grants are used by the party to maintain electoral positions. We employ the pooled time-series and cross-sectional data of 21 counties from 1987 when the Demccratic Progressive Party (DPP) first entered Legislative Yuan until 1998 when legislators held election and brought attention to the influence of party politics on intergovernmental grants. The results provide strong support for the public choice theory and highlight the importance of party politics on the distribution of grant revenue. |