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    The Impact of Election Expenditure on Agricultural Service Delivery in Zambia, 2000-2021: A Regressional Analysis
    (2023) SILIYA, Dora
    The study analysed the relationship between public expenditure at the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA). The focus was on ECZ expenditure shifts in election and non-election years and their impact on service delivery components in agriculture. The question asked was whether election costs induced irreversible cyclical fiscal shocks that may have negatively impacted efficient service delivery in agriculture? Descriptive and Inferential statistics were applied to secondary time series data from 2000-2021. The study established a positive and significant impact of the expenditure at ECZ on Agriculture service delivery expenditure in both the short and long run. Agriculture had an erratic trend with highest expenditure in 2015 at 8.8% of national spending. A 1% increase in expenditure by the ECZ increased agriculture service delivery expenditure by 1.064% and 1.038% in the short and long run respectively. The study concludes that while the expenditure relationship between the ECZ and service delivery in agriculture was positive, the increases in agriculture service delivery were minimal and reduced in the long run. This appeared to go against the signalling mechanism of democratic elections in a country where the majority earned from agriculture. We called this phenomenon, failure of the functionality ‘burden on democracy’.