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Does It Pay Off for Mayors to Accurately Manage Finance on Municipalities?: The Case of Portugal

Costa, Joana·2020·Advances in Public Policy and Administration
DOI 10.4018/978-1-5225-7820-8.ch003
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Under the premise of rationality, politicians behave to maximize re-election probability. Favorable macroeconomic contexts, alignment with central governance, and balanced public finance will be rewarded leading to re-election. Logit estimations applied to Portuguese municipalities in the period 2002-2017 fail to empirically support these theoretical effects, providing no incentive-controlled policy actions. Local voters do not punish mayors for the adverse economic performance, staying loyal to ideological voting geographically and over time. Only turnout punishes incumbents over the entire period. The introduction of the law of limitation of terms did not change the incentives towards wise governance; therefore, lack of electoral punishments to undesirable policy actions withstands the potential misconduct of incumbents. Existing evidence points to the need of reforms in what concerns electoral participation as when we compel voters to express their democratic rights, they become more critical to undesirable achievements.

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Authors
Costa, J.
Affiliations
University of Aveiro (PT)
Corresponding author
Costa, Joana
ORCID
Costa, Joana
Venue
Advances in Public Policy and Administration
Publisher
IGI Global
Published
2020
Pages
54-79
ISSN
  • 2475-6644 (ISSN-L)
  • 2475-6652
DOI
10.4018/978-1-5225-7820-8.ch003
OpenAlex
W2991928099
Cited by
1
References
32
Citations by year
2021: 1
FWCI
2.51
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book series (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Keywords
mayoral reelection, electoral punishment, local government finance, municipal budget management, voter turnout, ideological voting, term limits, local elections, Portuguese municipalities

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