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Transparency and Policy Competition: Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians

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A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens' political satisfaction between high- and low-performing states and increases their demand for greater transparency of states' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases (decreases) policy support in high-performing (low-performing) states. We conclude that increasing the public salience of educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 387

Classification: Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Education: Government Policy
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

Subject: yardstick competition
beliefs
information
citizens
politicians
survey experiment

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Blesse, Sebastian
Lergetporer, Philipp
Nover, Justus
Werner, Katharina

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition

(where): München und Berlin

(when): 2023

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/282079

Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET

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Blesse, Sebastian
Lergetporer, Philipp
Nover, Justus
Werner, Katharina
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition

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2023

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