Institutional inertia, local leadership turnover, and changes in the structure of fiscal expenditure

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Table 4 The relationship between the fiscal expenditure structure and the governor’s “goal”

	Deviation rate from the national average			Absolute deviation rate from the national average
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
	Economic construction	Economic construction	Economic construction	Public security	Public security	Public security
Length of governor’s term	0.008**		− 0.004	− 0.004**		− 0.004**
Deviation rate from the previous governor's expenditure structure		0.044***	0.048***		0.010	0.006
Control variable	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control
Time effect	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control
Individual effect	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control	Control

(1) *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01. (2) The table shows the coefficient results of the core explanatory variables in each regression. The control variables at the local leader level are used in Table 2, and the control variables related to provincial economic and social development are controlled during the regression process