Clientelistic Parties, Reelection Incentives and Legislative Cohesion

• In Event: Parties, Elections, and Candidates

Brief Overview

Using a new dataset of over half a million individual speeches given by Mexican local legislators and a diff-in-diff research design that leverages a unique electoral reform, I examine whether introducing reelection incentives impacts party cohesion.

Author

• Lucia Motolinia, New York University