Browsing by Subject "Reelección"

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    Can salaries and re-election prevent political corruption? An empirical evidence
    (2018) Benito López, Bernardino; Guillamón López, María Dolores; Bastida, Francisco; Ríos Martínez, Ana María
    Background and objectives: This paper mainly focuses on decisions taken by politicians that may affect the level of municipal corruption. Specifically, we study whether local politicians’ incentives to be corrupt are influenced by the wages they receive and/or their intention to run for next elections. This issue has hardly been empirically tackled before at local level. Method and data: Our sample comprises 358 Spanish municipalities of over 20,000 inhabitants for the period 2004–2009. We use two different methods of estimation, ordinary least squares and ordered logit model, to analyze the influence of politician’s wages and/or their intention to seek re-election on corruption. We utilize as gauge of corruption the total cases of urban corruption (reported in the online press) in each municipality during this period. Results: We show an impact of wages and re-election on corruption. First, relatively higher wages do not reduce politicians’ incentives to be corrupt. Second, when politicians want to be re-elected, corruption decreases. We also find that income level, income inequality, education level, municipal urban revenues and touristic nature of the municipality affect corruption. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that it is necessary that local governments pay particular attention to rules related to the way politicians’ wages are set and the term limits restrictions
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    El efecto del gasto público sobre las posibilidades de reelección de los gobiernos locales
    (2013) Balaguer-Coll, María Teresa; Brun-Martos, María Isabel
    Este artículo analiza el efecto del gasto público municipal sobre la probabilidad de reelección de los gobiernos locales españoles durante el período 2000-2007, utilizando la metodología logit para datos de panel. Los resultados obtenidos indican que, en general, aumentos en el gasto público municipal repercuten de forma positiva sobre las posibilidades de reelección de los gobiernos locales y, fundamentalmente, cuando este aumento se realiza en el período preelectoral. Asimismo, se aprecia que existen otras variables que afectan de forma positiva sobre las probabilidades de reelección, como son el volumen de ingresos por transferencias, que sean partidos de derechas, o el hecho de que un municipio haya obtenido mayoría absoluta en las elecciones previas. Por el contrario, el número de años que un alcalde lleva en el cargo presenta un impacto negativo sobre las probabilidades de reelección