In Chile's two-member legislative districts we show there are two groups of swing voters, one group for the first seat won by the governing coalition, another for the second. We build a model that allows us to identify the ...

In Chile's two-member legislative districts we show there are two groups of swing voters, one group for the first seat won by the governing coalition, another for the second. We build a model that allows us to identify the ...

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such strategy is rewarded ...

Las políticas de pork barrel en sistemas electorales con distritos uninominales y elecciones mayoritarias son un fenómeno muy discutido entre investigadores de política comparada. En un país con distritos grandes y elecciones ...

This paper analyses the relationship between school provision and the political power of the president in Uruguay between 1914 and 1954. The empirical test relies on panel fixed effects models based on newly compiled ...

This thesis is composed of three articles. The first one seeks to resume the discussion over the effect of pork barrel politics on vote, using more detailed data and more precise methods to verify the electoral efficacy ...

There is little consensus among empirical studies regarding the electoral effect of individual budget amendments. The present article addresses this question by using regressions with panel data to study how a deputy's ...

The article investigates the impact of local policies on human development indicators in Brazilian municipalities. This is an attempt to investigate the role of the legislative branch in reducing inequality and poverty ...