Analysis of Expenses from Brazilian Federal Deputies between 2015 and 2018
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https://doi.org/10.5753/jidm.2025.3383Keywords:
Analysis of Expenses, Public Expenses, Brazilian Deputies, OutliersAbstract
The analysis of public expenses is fundamental to foster the correct use of public resources, guaranteeing the application of the principles of publicity and efficiency. Within the scope of the Brazilian parliament, Parliamentary Quotas are also identified as public resources, therefore they need to be subject to the same control criteria. This research aims to carry out analyzes of parliamentary expenses related to Parliamentary Quotas, presenting the distribution of expenses related to the 55th Legislature (2015-2018) of Brazil, in addition to identifying anomalies in such expenses. Through a clustering-based analysis, the expenses were compared with the goal of finding similarities between the spending behavior of the federal deputies. This study, through data mining, presents the results obtained from analyzing different parliamentary expenses under the party or regional aspect of each deputy. The results obtained allowed us to answer questions related to the characteristics of the expenses involving Parliamentary Quotas, anomalous expenses, and similarity between parliamentary expenses, such as, the identification of expenditure patterns, which allow the verification of regional variability, as well as identifying some of the expenditures as possibly anomalous.
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