In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of … chairpersons of county councils by uninominal voting, shifting of the general and presidential elections and the introduction of a … uninominal voting system for parliamentary elections, with a correction of the total number of seats according to the total …

local council towards direct mayor elections was introduced during a phase-in period from 1993 to 1998. The end of the term … state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

expenditures and decrease(s) taxation before the elections for re-election prospect. This paper’s arguments are twofold. First …This paper inquires the following research question that “to what extent, do election years have explanatory power to …, classic electoral budget cycle disregards temporal order in elections that between two first-order elections (general …