Electoral Systems Strategic Voting Political Competition Regression Discontinuity Fiscal Spending
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1. Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a run-off election takes place among the top two candidates if nei
Publicado em: 16/06/2010