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To the victor belongs the spoils? Party membership and public sector employment in Brazil
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Brollo, Fernanda, Forquesato, Pedro and Gozzi, Juan Carlos (2017) To the victor belongs the spoils? Party membership and public sector employment in Brazil. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS), 2017 (1144). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We analyze how political discretion a.ects the selection of government workers, using individual-level data on political party membership and matched employer-employee data on the universe of formal workers in Brazil. Exploiting close mayoral races, we find that winning an election leads to an increase of over 40% in the number of members of the winning party working in the municipal bureaucracy. Employment of members of the ruling party increases relatively more in senior positions, but also expands in lower-ranked jobs, suggesting that discretionary appointments are used both to influence policymaking and to reward supporters. We find that party members hired after their party is elected tend be of similar or even higher quality than members of the runner-up party, contrary to common perceptions that political appointees are less qualified. Moreover, the increased public employment of members of the ruling party is long-lasting, extending beyond the end of the mayoral term.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Public service employment -- Economic aspects -- Brazil , Bureaucracy, Mayors -- Election, Patronage, Political | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||
Official Date: | 2017 | ||||
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Volume: | 2017 | ||||
Number: | 1144 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 November 2017 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 November 2017 | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | This paper also appears as CAGE Discussion Paper No: 353 |
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