participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military ….3) percentage points in the 2017 Presidential election. These effects are robust to different specifications and distinctive to the … eligibles in other upstream elections. Since less educated voters tended to support Chile's governing left-wing coalition, we …

participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military ….3) percentage points in the 2017 Presidential election. These effects are robust to different specifications and distinctive to the … eligibles in other upstream elections. Since less educated voters tended to support Chile's governing left-wing coalition, we …

results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a … significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers …