... government transfers continue to play a major place in local investments’ finance, even in a decentralization context. Limitation: Available data do not allow to well evaluate the impact of the electoral variable on municipalities’ investments’ expenditure. This situation does not allow to well analyze...

... of development studies and political science. Decentralization Social protection Direct elections Local elections Political budget cycle Decentralisation, democratisation and social protection (SP) are widely regarded as three important endeavours that developing countries ought to pursue...