Relief from Patronage: Can Social Insurance Cut the Ties between Poor Voters and Clientelist Politicians? Evidence from the Fall of Tammany Hall

• In Event: Bureaucratic Politics in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

I collect new data on the leadership of Tammany Hall and complete records on New York City government employees, link those with individual-level census records, and test if the provision of poor relief under the New Deal crowded out patronage.

Author

• Lukas Leucht, University of California-Berkeley