Votos y presupuesto: efecto de la alineación política local con el gobierno nacional central en la asignación presupuestal

This document explores the impact of political alignment between the local level (mayors) and the central level (president) on the allocation of different transfers from the Central National Government, and on specific measures of electoral support, development and local performance. This effect is...

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Autores:
Navarro Pérez, Cristina
Tipo de recurso:
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50878
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50878
Palabra clave:
Presupuesto local
Elecciones municipales
Transferencias monetarias
Economía
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:This document explores the impact of political alignment between the local level (mayors) and the central level (president) on the allocation of different transfers from the Central National Government, and on specific measures of electoral support, development and local performance. This effect is analyzed by means of a Discontinuous Regression Design and taking into account the regional elections held in Colombia in 2003, 2007 and 2011, and the presidential elections corresponding to 2002, 2006 and 2010. Although no difference is found in the general allocation of discretionary resources between aligned and non-aligned candidates, the evidence allows to conclude that the aligned mayors elected by a narrow margin (between the aligned candidate and the non-aligned candidate with the presidential level) and with political competition in the previous local elections, they received more discretionary transfers from the nation. However, these had only a limited reach in the population as they were not reflected...