IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/gvn/eprgwp/932018.html

Electronic voting and Public Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on federal budget amendments in Brazil

Author

Listed:
  • Rodrigo Schneider
  • Diloá Athias
  • Maurício Soares Bugarin

Abstract

This article examines whether an increase in political participation biased toward low-income voters, and concentrated in legislative elections, impacts federal representatives' allocation of resources from the federal budget. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits the assignment to electronic voting based on population size in Brazil to identify the causal effect of enfranchisement on allocation of public spending. We find that an increase of 1 percentage point in the valid vote to turnout ratio for federal representatives increases the allocation of funds from the federal budget in 4.2%, and that experienced politicians are more responsive to the enfranchisement of low-income voters.

Suggested Citation

  • Rodrigo Schneider & Diloá Athias & Maurício Soares Bugarin, 2018. "Electronic voting and Public Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on federal budget amendments in Brazil," Economics and Politics Working Paper Series 93/2018, Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília.
    • Handle: RePEc:gvn:eprgwp:932018
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23594791
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://zenodo.org/api/records/23594791/files/eprg-wp-2018-93.pdf/content
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.5281/zenodo.23594791?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gvn:eprgwp:932018. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Daniel Gersten Reiss (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://econpolrg.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.