Government accounting and electoral agenda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an empirical analysis of a panel of municipalities during 1998 - 2006
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https://doi.org/10.11606/rco.v3i5.34735Keywords:
Government Accounting, political cycles, regression with panel dataAbstract
Based on the theory of political-economic cycles this paper investigates accounting data relatied to municipal governments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aiming to detect whether mayors displayed cyclical behavior during the period 1998-2006, including electoral years 2002 and 2006. Using panel data corresponding to a convenience sample including forty municipalities, allowed the selected variables from municipal budgets and balance sheets to be analyzed using a linear regression framework. Findings suggest that electoral agendas cyclically impact in a significant way upon mayor behavior. For some expenditure items cyclical manipulations coincided with electoral years and seem to indicate that mayors are indeed prone to helping their parties both in executive and parliamentary elections, either in state or national levels. However the partisan coincidence between mayors and either governors or the president has shown a negative relationship so that their revealed behavior points in fact to a substitution among government levels.Downloads
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