Table 5 Results of linear regression models predicting 2008 Levels of Privatization by Party in Power in Brazilian Municipalities^a

Incumbency

−0.27

−0.35

0.85

−0.85

−0.46

0.02^.

(0.42)

(0.86)

(1.10)

(0.01)

(0.00)

(0.01)

HDI

0.19^**

0.23^.

0.62^***

−0.07

0.16^***

0.79^***

(0.06)

(0.13)

(0.15)

(0.12)

(0.04)

(0.14)

Upper middle class income

0.09^***

0.08^**

0.06^.

0.06^*

0.04^***

−0.16^***

(0.01)

(0.03)

(0.04)

(0.03)

(0.01)

(0.04)

 Total Equipment per capita end of term

0.92^***

4.89^***

8.85^***

0.13^***

(0.11)

(0.30)

(0.87)

(0.03)

 Total Equipment per capita baseline

−0.78^***

−4.73^***

−10.37^***

−0.07^*

(0.11)

(0.29)

(0.85)

(0.03)

 % Private Equipment

0.78^***

0.77^***

0.72^***

0.80^***

 Interquartile Range

0.20

0.67

0.73

0.47

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

 Outsourcing/Health Expenditures

0.44^***

(0.01)

 Health Expenditures per capita

0.70^***

(0.01)

R² Full model

0.77

0.70

0.70

0.71

0.47

0.60

R² Political variables only

0.02

0.01

0.01

0.01

0.03

0.01

Num. obs.

3420

2840

1988

2998

4480

4534