Partisan politics and corruption: Evidence from Mexico

• In Event: Corruption, Organized Crime and Violence

Brief Overview

Using a newly collected dataset of 15,984 audits conducted during 16 years at three levels of government in Mexico, we evaluate whether when different government tiers are governed by different parties, the likelihood of corruption increases.

Authors

• Viridiana Ríos, Harvard University

• Omar Garcia Ponce, George Washington University