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Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics

Boffa, Federico; Cavalcanti, Francisco; Piolatto, Amedeo - 2021

Central-government politicians channel resources to sub-national entities for political gains. We show formally that the central politicians' allocation decision has two drivers: political alignment (between central and local politicians) and the level of local political accountability. However,...

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Political Budget Cycle : An Analysis of Brazilian Municipalities

Crispim, Gilberto; Flach, Leonardo; Alberton, Luiz; … - 2021

The study investigates the behavior of committed expenses, investment expenditures and loan during an election period in Brazilian municipalities with a population equal to or greater than 50 thousand inhabitants, as well as whether these same municipalities meet the legal requirements regarding...

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Public Vices, Private Serfdom? Comments on the Optimal Size of the Brazilian State

Shikida, Claudio D. - 2016

Brazil in terms of serfdom days allocated by individuals for the payment of taxes (the so-called tax freedom day). The …

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Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization

Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021

We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...

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Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization

Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021

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The price of media capture and the looting of newspapers in interwar France

Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - 2012

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...

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Exposing Corrupt Politicians : The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - 2021

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil …

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Female political representation and violence against women : evidence from Brazil

Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022

Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors …

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Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020

by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event … and 2018 presidential elections in Brazil, which resulted in the election of a left-wing and a rightwing populist … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades …

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Corruption and legislature size : evidence from Brazil

Britto, Diogo; Fiorin, Stefano - 2016

This paper studies the role of council size on government corruption in Brazil. We leverage on the discontinuous …

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