Ciclos políticos e resultados eleitorais: um estudo sobre o comportamento do eleitor brasileiro / Political cycles and electoral results: a study on the behavior of the Brazilian electorate

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2006

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The present work investigates the causes that determine the existence of political budget cycles in Brazilian Federal States. In this way, it is proposed a methodology to decompose the political cycles, trying to identify the parcels that are due to the opportunism and to the signaling activity of the governors. The aim is to investigate whether the electorate is capable of: (1) capture the competence signals sent by the governors, according to the models of the political cycles; and (2) identify and punish the opportunistic politics, according to the models of electoral control. The results indicate that the electorate rewards the opportunistic cycles in both revenue and public spending. This result, however, must be qualified by the evidence that the effect of the opportunism on the chances of reelection have diminished along the time, indicating an evolution in the capacity of the voters to identify and punish the electoral manipulations. With respect to the competence parcel of the cycles, the estimation indicates that the competence signaling occurs mainly through the budget revenue variables. This result is in accordance with the models of rational political cycles and indicates that, at least during the last period of the sample, the budget cycles are being induced by the signaling activity of the governors.

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eleitorado econometrics politica fiscal comportamento reelection fiscal policy electoral behavior reeleição

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