Are newcomers financially responsible? Evidence from close elections in Brazilian municipalities
By: Hott, Henrique Augusto Campos Fernandez and Menezes-Filho, Naercio
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BookPublisher: Local Government Studies Description: 50(1), Feb, 2024: p.48-86.Subject(s): Experience, Municipal elections, Regression discontinuity design, Local government budget, May
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Local Government StudiesSummary: This paper examines how mayors’ political experience impacts fiscal outcomes. Using a regression discontinuity design in highly-contested elections in Brazilian municipalities, we estimate the differences in fiscal performance between newcomers and veteran politicians. We find that municipalities governed by mayors who never won an election before experience a worse budget balance and a substantial increase in public investments. This difference appears to be driven by differences in candidates’ experience rather than by factors such as re-election concern, ideology, vertical partisan alignment, gender and political party turnover.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03003930.2023.2185230
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This paper examines how mayors’ political experience impacts fiscal outcomes. Using a regression discontinuity design in highly-contested elections in Brazilian municipalities, we estimate the differences in fiscal performance between newcomers and veteran politicians. We find that municipalities governed by mayors who never won an election before experience a worse budget balance and a substantial increase in public investments. This difference appears to be driven by differences in candidates’ experience rather than by factors such as re-election concern, ideology, vertical partisan alignment, gender and political party turnover.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03003930.2023.2185230
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