Voting with your wallet? Municipal budget policy and election results

In this research letter, we examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. We contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for Flanders (B...

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Autores principales: Baert, Stijn, Matthijs, Herman, Verdievel, Ilse
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6715277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31465504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221619
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description In this research letter, we examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. We contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for Flanders (Belgium) between 1994 and 2012, we find no significant association between these budget variables and the actual election results.
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spelling pubmed-67152772019-09-10 Voting with your wallet? Municipal budget policy and election results Baert, Stijn Matthijs, Herman Verdievel, Ilse PLoS One Research Article In this research letter, we examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. We contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for Flanders (Belgium) between 1994 and 2012, we find no significant association between these budget variables and the actual election results. Public Library of Science 2019-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6715277/ /pubmed/31465504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221619 Text en © 2019 Baert et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6715277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31465504
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