Ministerial Government and Pork Barrel Politics under the Separation of Powers: The case of Brazil

• In Event: Distributive Politics in Latin America

Brief Overview

In this paper, we analyze ministerial strategies of discretionary spending. Using data from Brazil from 1995 to 2014, we seek to understand whether ministers are agents of their parties or not.

Authors

• Arnaldo Mauerberg Junior, University of Brasília

• Renato Lima-de-Oliveira, Asia School of Business and MIT-Sloan

• Julia Mantovani Guerreiro, Fundação Getulio Vargas

• André Borges, University of Brasilia