Are voters fiscal conservatives? Evidence from Brazilian municipal elections
Some papers in literature show that voters are fiscal conservatives, while others find evidence of a preference for fiscal profligacy. We use a traditional Probit model to analyze the preference of Brazilian municipal voters in the 2000 election. The main result suggests that voters prefer greater e...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2010-03-01
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Series: | Estudos Econômicos |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-41612010000100003 |