We explore the effects of government subsidies on presidential elections in Chile in 1989-99. We use a panel with three periods (the elections of 1989. 1993, and 1999) and 229 counties. We correct for the potential ...

During the period in which Latin America underwent the most lasting and widespread wave of democratization, we test whether governments targeted increases in social spending to coincide with presidential elections in a ...

La tradición de los debates electorales televisados en España nació en el año 1993. En el año 2008 se realizaron dos debates entre los candidatos a la presidencia del Gobierno, que estuvieron marcados por elementos de ...

Apesar da variação observada na votação partidária (entre um município e outro, e mesmo entre regiões) e independentemente de variáveis específicas (como características demográficas, socioeconômicas ou a existência de ...

We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ...