Living conditions, State and public policies

4. Local Government Finances: priorities and regionalization.

The project examines budget revenue and expenses in the city of Sao Paulo, and investigates spending priorities and their spatial distribution. In addition, it looks at the behavior of municipal finance, investigating the relationship between political parties and municipal spending by function and region between 1993 and 2004. The project will contribute to investigating the relationship between party ideology and the implementation of public policy.

The objective is to investigate how much knowledge there is about the patterns of municipal spending, and look at the inductive role of federal guidelines, the degree of local government autonomy, the role of political parties and the weight of previous spending decisions.

Coordinator: Marta Arretche

Research team: Daniel Vazquez, Vera Viviane Schmidt