CONSÓRCIO PÚBLICO INTERMUNICIPAL: características dos municípios participantes

• Main Authors: Greisson Almeida Pereira, Tito Belchior da Silva Moreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Maranhão 2016-01-01
• Series: Revista de Políticas Públicas
• Subjects: municipal public consortium; decentralization; public policies
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321146417020

The objective of this work is to verify which the economic, demographic, political, fiscal and social characteristics of the municipalities that participating in some kind of public intermunicipal consortium. It was used the probit regression model with data in cross -section for the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities existing in 2010. The results showed empirical evidence that the municipalities that participate in some type of public intermunicipal consortium have better levels of per capita income, unemployment rate, HDI index and inadequate sanitation. It was also found that these municipalities have lower population level and tax revenues per capita and higher cash flows. It concludes that the variables relating to characteristics of political parties were not statistically significant when evaluated on the federal level. As to the state le vel, they were significant when incorporated more variables to the model, indicating partisan linkage between municipalities and their state governments.