Pork Barrel Politics in Context of Action Plan - Support of Least Developed Districts
Pork Barrel Politics in Context of Action Plan - Support of Least Developed Districts

Author(s): Róbert Martin Hudec
Subject(s): Politics, Public Finances
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Pork barrel politics; clientelism; reelection of candidate; regional politics; least developed districts;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to find out and describe if and by which means the attributes of Pork barrel politics were present in redistribution of funds from Regional grants, which were part of Action Plan – Support of Least Developed Districts. Secondary aim is to see how receiving of this grant could have helped in reelection of incumbent in next election. An Index of political patronage was assembled to measure the level of pork barreling. Based on party affiliation, mayors with connections to government were not highly favored when receiving grant, not even in the case of affiliation with party, which redistributed the grants. Neither there were no significant differences in the odds of reelection based on whether the incumbent received a grant nor not. That is an unexpected result relative to other research in the field.

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