Mayoral quality and municipal performance in Brazilian local governments

Abstract

W e test the influence of managerial quality on organizational performance using a panel data set on 827 (out of 853) Brazilian municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais over a six-year period (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010). The intracountry and intra-state comparison controls for potential institutional, historical, and cultural variables. Local managerial quality is assessed in terms of mayoral education and experience (public and reelection), and municipal performance is operationalized as property tax collected per capita and property tax collected as a percentage of total revenue. The study covers the four years of the 2005-2008 mayoral administration and the first two years of the 2009-2012 administration. After testing the effect of political, economic, and ideological factors and controlling for other municipal factors, we find, contrary to our expectations, that mayoral quality fails to explain variance in property tax collection. Rather, political factors (legislature support and electoral cycle) seem to be more strongly correlated with municipal property tax collection. Specifically, municipalities in which the mayor enjoys more partisan support on the city council tend to collect more property tax. Moreover, compared to the first three years of mayoral administration, in the last year of mayoral administrationthat is, during the mayoral election year -municipalities tend to reduce their property tax collection.Keywords: Performance in public organizations. Mayors. Minas Gerais. IPTU. capacidade gerencial dos prefeitos e o deseMpenho de Municípios BrasileirosResumo N ós testamos a influência da capacidade gerencial no desempenho organizacional empregando dados em painel de 827 (dentre 853) cidades brasileiras do Estado de Minas Gerais num período de seis anos (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010). A comparação dentro do país e dentro do estado é um controle para potenciais variáveis institucionais, históricas e culturais. Capacidade gerencial local é avaliada em termos do nível educacional e experiência do prefeito (experiência em cargos públicos e reeleição), o desempenho municipal é operacionalizado em termos de arrecadação de IPTU per capta e arrecadação de IPTU em relação ao total da Receita. O estudo compreende os quatro anos da administração 2005-2008 e os dois primeiros anos da administração 2009-2012. Após testar os efeitos dos fatores políticos, econômicos e ideológicos e controlando outros fatores relacionados ao município, nós descobrimos, ao contrário de nossas expectativas, que a capacidade gerencial do prefeito falha em explicar a variância da arrecadação de IPTU. Fatores políticos (suporte legislativo e ciclo eleitoral) parecem ser bem mais fortemente correlacionados com arrecadação de IPTU. Especificamente, nos municípios em que

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