A Market for Clientelist Mediation: The case of Mexican Intermediaries

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Brief Overview

High transaction costs in accessing bureaucracy create and sustain a market for intermediaries. I evidence the existence of this market and illustrate its dynamics using three original surveys conducted to citizens, intermediaries and bureaucrats.

Author

• Tesalia Elisa Rizzo, Stanford University