Political business cycles at the municipal level

Public Choice

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 45-64

  Veiga, Linda Gonçalves ^a   Veiga, Francisco José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Elections; Local governments; Political business cycles; Portugal; Public finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947101712     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9104-2     Document Type: Article

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