Planning Consistency and the Political Budget Cycle in Indonesia
: Simultaneous Regional Elections in 2017 and 2018
Abstract
This study aims to find empirical evidence of the relationship between planning and the practices associated with political budget cycles in Indonesia, with reference to the simultaneous regional head elections held in 2017 and 2018. A fixed-effect method using least-square dummy variables analyzes the role of planning in the relationship between local-government spending and political budget cycle behaviors. The results indicate that consistency between planning and budgeting can control the discretion applied by regional heads to increase and decrease budget expenditure in the two years before an election, one year before an election and in the election year itself. The magnitude of these reductions or increases differs between types of expenditure. The association between planning and the political budget cycle is significant in the two years before an election for primary expenditure allocations and in a year before an election for allocations of capital expenditure, social assistance, and grants and subsidies.
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Potrafke, N. (2010). The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: do government ideology and electoral motives matter?. Journal of Health Economics, 29(6), 797-810.
Rogoff, K. (1990). Equilibrium political budget cycles. The American Economic Review, 80(1), 21–36.
Sanchez, F. C. (2007). Incentives for budget discipline in the presence of elections. European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), 863–884.
Sjahrir, B. S., Kis-Katos, K. & Schulze, G. G. (2013). Political budget cycles in Indonesia at the district level. Economics Letters, 120(2), 342–345.
Sjahrir, B. S., Kis-Katos, K. & Schulze, G.G. (2014). Administrative overspending in Indonesian districts: The role of local politics. World Development, 59, 166–183.
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Wiguna, G. E., & Khoirunurrofik, K. Political budget cycle patterns and the role of coalition parties in shaping Indonesian local government spending. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41685-02
Published
2021-08-23
How to Cite
KHOIRUNURROFIK, Khoirunurrofik; RAHMAWATI, Farina.
Planning Consistency and the Political Budget Cycle in Indonesia.
Jurnal Ekonomi Kuantitatif Terapan, [S.l.], p. 327-350, aug. 2021.
ISSN 2303-0186.
Available at: <https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/jekt/article/view/74442>. Date accessed: 25 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.24843/JEKT.2021.v14.i02.p06.
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