The "Hidden" Power of Money: How Campaign Contributions to Legislators Buy Influence Through Executive Action

• In Event: Political Elites and Intermediaries

Brief Overview

We study how the bargaining power of legislators with the executive can condition rewards for legislators' donors, using a dataset that links donors of local councillors to public contracts assigned by the municipal governments in Colombia.

Authors

• Nelson Alejandro Ruiz, University of Oxford

• Miguel Rueda, Emory University