Electronic voting and Public Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on federal budget amendments in Brazil

Rodrigo Schneider, Diloá Athias and Maurício Soares Bugarin

No 93/2018, Economics and Politics Working Paper Series from Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília

Abstract: This article examines whether an increase in political participation biased toward low-income voters, and concentrated in legislative elections, impacts federal representatives' allocation of resources from the federal budget. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits the assignment to electronic voting based on population size in Brazil to identify the causal effect of enfranchisement on allocation of public spending. We find that an increase of 1 percentage point in the valid vote to turnout ratio for federal representatives increases the allocation of funds from the federal budget in 4.2%, and that experienced politicians are more responsive to the enfranchisement of low-income voters.

Keywords: Electronic voting; political participation; politically motivated transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D72 D78 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-10
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23594791

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