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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paulo Roberto Arvate, Marcos Mendes, Alexandre Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-03-01
Series:Estudos Econômicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-41612010000100003