Some Norwegian Politicians' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Karine Nyborg

Public Choice, 1998, vol. 95, issue 3-4, 401 pages

Abstract: Members of the Norwegian Parliament were interviewed about their use of cost-benefit analysis in the political treatment of a road investment plan. Most respondents found the cost-benefit ratio useful as a screening device to pick projects requiring closer political attention but few seemed to actually use it to rank projects. Attitudes towards cost-benefit analysis varied along the left-right political axis, with politicians to the left being the most skeptical. These findings are consistent with a hypothesis that politicians rationally maximize subjective, but different, perceptions of social welfare. Copyright 1998 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1998
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