Economic Policy and Electoral Self Interest: The Allocations of the Department of Regional Economic Expansion

This paper examines the relative importance of political and economic factors in the spatial distribution of industrial location subsidies offered by the Department of Regional Economic Expansion in federal electoral districts between 1969 and 1974. The conventional view would appear to be that allo...

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description This paper examines the relative importance of political and economic factors in the spatial distribution of industrial location subsidies offered by the Department of Regional Economic Expansion in federal electoral districts between 1969 and 1974. The conventional view would appear to be that allocative decisions are influenced by technical factors, by economic goals, or occasionally by broadly political objectives such as fostering national integration, but not by the electoral self-interest of the governing party. An alternative view, which is explored here, is that partisan electoral considerations may enter into the decision-making process in a number of ways, depending upon the government's electoral strategy. Using mutiple regression analysis it was found that after controlling for economic need, per capita expenditures on regional development incentives were associated positively with the degree of electoral volatility in an electoral district and with the presence of an incumbent Social Credit MP. /// Cet article étudie l'influence relative des facteurs économiques et politiques sur la distribution géographique des subventions à la localisation industrielle, offertes par le Ministère de l'Expansion Economique Régionale, dans les circonscriptions électorales fédérales entre 1969 et 1974. Une approche conventionnelle ferait voir que les décisions relatives aux allocations sont influencées par des facteurs techniques, par des objectifs économiques, et parfois par des desseins politiques au sens large, comme, par exemple, une incitation à l'intégration nationale, mais jamais par les stricts intérêts électoraux du parti au pouvoir. En revanche, une approche différente, élaborée ici, dévoilerait que des considérations électorales partisanes, peuvent entrer dans le processus de décision de multiples façons, selon la stratégie électorale du gouvernement. A l'aide d'une analyse à régression multiple, nous avons trouvé que, en plus de servir de moyens de contrôle pour les besoins économiques, les déboursés par tête en faveur de l'incitation au développement régional étaient absolument liés au degré de volatilité de l'électorat dans une circonscription donnée et à la présence, dans cette circonscription, d'un député créditiste sortant.
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Voting
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