Autor: Sánchez, Miguel García
Co-autor: Becerra, Santiago De la cadena
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As elections approach, politicians and political parties want to manipulate public expenditure as a mechanism to sustain or improve their electoral support. Scholars studying political budget cycles have debated over the type and characteristics of the manipulation of public budgets in electoral seasons, concluding, that manipulation can cast itself in either a higher investment or in an alteration of budget composition.