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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities

Chamon, Marcos; Mello, João Manoel Pinho de; Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro
2010-06-16

We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ...