We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

Local Campaigns are frequently studied phenomena in the context of first past the post voting systems such as the UK. They draw less attention in proportional list systems or mixedmember systems. Students of electoral politics assume for these systems a predominant role of political parties...