The role of coalition parties and local government expenditure: Evidence from the developing country

This study aims at examining the role of coalition parties on local government expenditure. The are comprised several that support regional head in government. Specifically, this focuses two important aspects expenditure: education and health research question is “Does have a significant effect expenditure?”. independent variable elected heads. dependent expenditure, which consists expenditures. sample was Republic Indonesia from 2016–2018 period. There 632 observations as study. results revealed negative higher percentage has decreased expenditure both result shows confirms Lewis Hendrawan’s (2019) argument used their discretion to influence heads’ decisions