Working Paper

IDEAGOV publishes a new Working Paper entitled " Taxing Wealth or Capital Income? The Impact of Political Ideology on Property Tax Policy in Spain: A Quasi-Experimental Study"  by José María Tubío-Sánchez, Santiago Lago-Peñas, Xoaquín Fernández-Leiceaga and María Cadaval-Sampedro.  This paper analyses how political ideology influences local property tax policy in Spain. The results show that left-wing governments set higher than right-wing governments, however, while ideology

IDEAGOV is pleased ot announce the launch of its Working Paper Series, an initiative to promote high-quality research on governance, decentralisation and public policy.  The Working Paper entitled " Unfunded Mandates, Institutional Quality, and Social Progress: An Analysis for OECD Countries"  by Miriam Hortas-Rico and David Martinez-Algora initiates the series.  The paper studies the impact of the mismatch between political and fiscal decentralization impact on social progre