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Electoral budget cycles in legislatures

Wehner, Joachim ORCID: 0000-0002-1951-308X (2013) Electoral budget cycles in legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 38 (4). pp. 545-570. ISSN 0362-9805

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Identification Number: 10.1111/lsq.12027

Abstract

This article examines electoral cycles in legislative budget decisions. Where local structures play an important role in candidate selection and election, legislators' incentives to amend the executive spending proposal can depend on the proximity of elections, leading to more spendthrift behavior in the run-up to popular votes. However, stringent budget institutions can counteract this tendency. Using a unique dataset of executive spending proposals and approved budgets in Sweden, I find strong empirical support for these predictions. Future studies of electoral cycles should pay greater attention to separating the contributions of the legislative and executive stages of the budgetary process and the conditions that foster electoral cyclicality in legislatures.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.scopus.com/source/sourceInfo.url?source...
Additional Information: © 2013 The Comparative Legislative Research Center of The University of Iowa
Divisions: Government
Subjects: J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2013 14:58
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2024 19:18
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54612

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