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Electronic voting and Social Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on municipal public spending in Brazil

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  • Rodrigo Schneider
  • Diloá Athias
  • Maurício Soares Bugarin

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This article studies the effect of voting enfranchisement focused on the poor in Brazil and its consequences on municipal level social public spending. According to the model constructed in this work, it should be expected an increase in social spending. This prediction is empirically tested using electronic voting (EV) as instrument since it has impacted positively voting enfranchisement, biased toward the poor voter, without having a direct effect on public spending. A 2SLS regression and a differences-in-differences methodology are both applied to show that municipalities that used EV spent more on health, education and public employment compared to the ones that didn't confirming the hypothesis presented in our model.

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  • Rodrigo Schneider & Diloá Athias & Maurício Soares Bugarin, 2016. "Electronic voting and Social Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on municipal public spending in Brazil," Economics and Politics Working Paper Series 62/2016, Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília.
    • Handle: RePEc:gvn:eprgwp:622016
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23594260
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