This study analyses how political and institutional factors affected the performance of municipalities in improving social welfare in Brazil in the period from1990 to 2000. Themodel adopts a stochastic production frontier, conditioned by variables related to the provision costs of services and those that can affect municipal efficiency. The results indicated that we can not reject:1) economies of scale; 2) the effect of vote margin in the municipality and the type (first or second) of mandate of elected governor, which indicates a form of patronage; and 3) that local politics and the existence of sectorial boards did not affect the level of efficiency for municipal spending, suggesting an asymmetry of information between politics and voters...
Some papers in literature show that voters are fiscal conservatives, while others find evidence of a...
This dissertation covers different aspects of political institutions and fiscal policy in local gove...
The politics of intergovernmental transfers in Brazil. This article examines the political economy o...
This study analyses how technological, political and institutional factors affect the performance of...
Este estudo analisa como fatores políticos e institucionais afetam a efi-ciência do gasto municipal ...
A inter-relação entre política e economia é um tema vasto e proporcionou, ao longo do tempo, maior c...
Through the New Political Economics. theoretical structure this paper intends to explore how certain...
Abstract The 1988 federal Constitution introduced a complex and innovative institutional arrangement...
A percepção de que a economia é um sistema isolado e sem influência de fatores externos é, em alguma...
The 1988 federal constitution introduced a complex and innovative institutional arrangement that not...
Based on the literature on political-budget cycles, the present research aims to verify the influenc...
A Constituição Federal Brasileira de 1988 trouxe diversas inovações à estrutura governamental, notad...
In the first essay this dissertation starts evaluating the world context of fiscal decentralization ...
O pressuposto da pesquisa é que as prefeituras que mais investem tendem a possuir melhores condiçõe...
Local provision of public services has the positive effect of increasing the efficiency because each...
Some papers in literature show that voters are fiscal conservatives, while others find evidence of a...
This dissertation covers different aspects of political institutions and fiscal policy in local gove...
The politics of intergovernmental transfers in Brazil. This article examines the political economy o...
This study analyses how technological, political and institutional factors affect the performance of...
Este estudo analisa como fatores políticos e institucionais afetam a efi-ciência do gasto municipal ...
A inter-relação entre política e economia é um tema vasto e proporcionou, ao longo do tempo, maior c...
Through the New Political Economics. theoretical structure this paper intends to explore how certain...
Abstract The 1988 federal Constitution introduced a complex and innovative institutional arrangement...
A percepção de que a economia é um sistema isolado e sem influência de fatores externos é, em alguma...
The 1988 federal constitution introduced a complex and innovative institutional arrangement that not...
Based on the literature on political-budget cycles, the present research aims to verify the influenc...
A Constituição Federal Brasileira de 1988 trouxe diversas inovações à estrutura governamental, notad...
In the first essay this dissertation starts evaluating the world context of fiscal decentralization ...
O pressuposto da pesquisa é que as prefeituras que mais investem tendem a possuir melhores condiçõe...
Local provision of public services has the positive effect of increasing the efficiency because each...
Some papers in literature show that voters are fiscal conservatives, while others find evidence of a...
This dissertation covers different aspects of political institutions and fiscal policy in local gove...
The politics of intergovernmental transfers in Brazil. This article examines the political economy o...