Electoral Rules and the Geographic Distribution of Public Goods

• In Event: This Land is Your Land: State Capacity and Distributive Politics

Brief Overview

Splitting a multimember district into many single-member ones improves attention to voters in peripheral relative to densely populated zones. We inspect how such reform affects the geographic distribution of public services in Mexican municipalities

Authors

• Adrian Lucardi, ITAM

• Eric Magar, Intituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico