Browsing Projeto FAPESP Relação entre o tamanho de legislaturas e bem-estar no Brasil / RP by Issue Date
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Electoral systems, competition, and incentives for corruption
2018What is the effect of electoral rules on political corruption? While the influence of electoral systems on accountability and representation has been widely studied, the link between electoral systems and corruption remains ... -
Institutional determinants of democratic survival
2018How institutions influence the survival of democracies? In this paper, I consider a model of democracy that incorporates institutional features in the classical income redistribution models. The article starts with a ... -
Legislature size and welfare: evidence from Brazil
2019What is the effect of legislature size on public service provision? While the literature relates legislature size to representation and government expenditure, its implications for welfare remain understudied. In this ... -
Investment capacity and the electoral marketplace: evidence from Brazil
2019The importance of money in elections is a hallmark of contemporary democracies. In this paper, we study how investment capacity, defined as the resources remaining after the municipality perform the mandatory expenditures, ...