As relações entre economia e política: uma análise dos ciclos político-econômicos nos estados brasileiros no período de 1995 a 2008

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the political-economic cycles in the Brazilian states from 1995 to 2008. The hypothesis that was considered was that the cyclical behavior in public spending caused by politically motivated election and / or party. The theoretical framework used was developed originally in the work of Downs (1957) and Nordhaus (1975). The assumptions of the model of political opportunism and Hibbs (1977) the assumptions of the model party. In the 80s of last century, the work of Alesina (1987) and Roggof and Sibert (1988) incorporated the original models the concepts of rational expectations and asymmetric information. Was made a econometric tests to check the influence of the electoral calendar and the party ideology on the conduct of public spending. The econometric model was used panel data GMM estimator with dynamic system. The results showed that the state increase spending in election years and is set down in post-election years, showing an opportunistic behavior by governments. The results also showed the expenditures implemented by the governments of different party ideologies had different behaviors, left-wing parties promote further expansion of public spending. The completion of the work is in the process of choosing the state public expenditures are both political and partisan cycles.