Electronic voting and public spending: the impact of de facto enfranchisement on federal budget amendments in Brazil
This article examines whether an increase in political participation biased toward low-income voters – and concentrated in legislative elections – impacts federal representatives’ allocation of resources from the federal budget to Brazilian municipalities. We use a regression discontinuity design th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Applied Economics |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2020.1748358 |