Arbeitspapier
Some Norwegian Politicians' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Members of the Norwegian Parliament were interviewed about the decision process concerning national road investments. Most of them found cost-benefit analysis useful, but apparently not as a device for ranking projects. Rather, the cost-benefit ratio was used to pick project proposals requiring political attention among the large number of projects included in the plan. However, information about project-related local conflicts seemed to be used much more extensively for this latter purpose. Attitudes towards cost-benefit analysis varied along the left-right political axis. These findings are shown to be consistent with a hypothesis that politicians rationally maximize subjective perceptions of social welfare.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 169
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
- Thema
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Road investments
cost-benefit analysis
political decision process.
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Nyborg, Karine
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Statistics Norway, Research Department
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Oslo
- (wann)
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1996
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Nyborg, Karine
- Statistics Norway, Research Department
Entstanden
- 1996
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