Instituições e crescimento econômico: uma análise empírica do poder legislativo municipal brasileiro

Abstract

The perception of society about the inefficiency of public expenditure has promoted a growing concern with the estimation of the efficiency of public spending. The first’s works have applied the Data Envelopment Analysis model (DEA) to analyze the efficiency of executive public spending. This paper contributes to the analysis of production efficiency of the municipal legislature, using the DEA methodology and the technical efficiency of the municipal legislature production, using the DEA methodology and the Public Choice approach applied to the legislative of the Brazilian municipalities. Concluding that most city councils in Brazil has a production deficit of at least 25%, with the highest concentration of inefficient legislative chambers is concentrated in the Northeast, followed by the north, and the largest concentration of legislative chambers are efficient in the region south, followed by the southeast region.