My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador

Brassiolo, Pablo; Estrada, Ricardo; Fajardo, Gustavo

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104286

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“…Patronage in public hiring is when politicians use their appointment power of public workers to reward supporters or friends. There are many ways in which we can define political support: the literature has examined patronage with regards to party affiliation (Barbosa & Ferreira, 2019;Brassiolo, Estrada, & Fajardo, 2020;Brollo, Forquesato, & Gozzi, 2017), donations to the electoral process (Colonnelli, Prem, & Teso, 2020), and to workers personally connected to the politician (Xu, 2018).…”

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“…More closely, it adds to a growing literature causally estimating the effect of being a supporter of elected mayors on public employment in municipalities, with a focus on Brazil (Barbosa and Ferreira (2019); Brassiolo et al (2020); Brollo et al (2017); Colonnelli et al (2020).…”

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“…As opposed to, for example, campaign donors and losing candidates, as inBrassiolo et al (2020);Colonnelli et al (2020) …”

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Who Benefits from Political Connections in Brazilian Municipalities

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2022

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A main issue in improving public sector efficiency is to understand to what extent public appointments are based on worker capability, instead of being used to reward political supporters (patronage). I contribute to a recent literature documenting patronage in public sector employment by establishing what type of workers benefit the most from political connections. Under the (empirically supported) assumption that in close elections the result of the election is as good as random, I estimate a causal forest to identify heterogeneity in the conditional average treatment effect of being affiliated to the party of the winning mayor. Contrary to previous literature, for most positions we find positive selection on education, but a negative selection on (estimated) ability. Overall, unemployed workers or low tenure employees that are newly affiliated to the winning candidate's party benefit the most from political connections, suggesting that those are used for patronage.

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Who Benefits from Political Connections in Brazilian Municipalities

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“…The third attractive feature is that, much like in many developing countries today (Colonnelli et al , 2020;Brassiolo et al , 2020), the US federal administration was characterized by widespread political patronage prior to the reform (Hoogenboom, 1968). Hence, our analysis provides a window into the early stages of a transition towards a professionalized bureaucracy, allowing us to shed light on the (often windy) path to successful organizational change.…”

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Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act

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Pérez²

2021

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“… See Cadot et al (2006) for evidence on France andPinho and Veiga (2007) andMigueis (2013) for a maturing democracy, namely Portugal Pinho and Veiga (2007). suggest that political alignment was especially important in years where the democracy was not yet fully established, but not in later periods.4 SeeColonnelli et al (2020) for Brazil,Brassiolo et al (2020) for Ecuador,Bach and Veit (2017) for Germany andFiva et al (2021) for Norway.5 There are recent studies which focus on the regional perspective of the grants' effectiveness Cataldo and Monastiriotis (2020),. for instance, show a positive effect of EU structural funds on economic growth in the UK overall and for less developed regions in particular Kang et al (2019).…”

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Political alignment and project funding

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Wrede

2022

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We analyze the relationship between the party affiliation of politicians at different levels of government and the spatial distribution of funding for research, development and innovation projects. In particular, we are investigating whether more federal grants are being granted in Germany for projects in federal states whose government is led by the same political party as the responsible ministry at federal level. Our dataset contains detailed information on publicly funded projects in Germany in the period 2010–2019. Using a fixed-effects estimation approach, we find a link between grant allocation and party affiliation of funding for research, development and innovation projects, in particular smaller ones. For these projects, political alignment is associated with an average increase in public funding by almost 10,000 euro. Our results suggest that public funds for research, development and innovation projects could be used more efficiently than they are.

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My (running) mate, the mayor: Political ties and access to public sector jobs in Ecuador

Cited by 20 publications

References 14 publications

Who Benefits from Political Connections in Brazilian Municipalities

Who Benefits from Political Connections in Brazilian Municipalities

Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act

Political alignment and project funding

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