Reelection Backfire: How Reelection Concerns Affect the Delegation of Public Security Policy in Mexico

• In Event: Comparative Criminal Justice Politics, Violence, and Organized Crime

Brief Overview

I study the effect of reelection on local incumbents’ incentives to delegate public security provision in Mexico. Reelection incentives lead incumbents to differentiate themselves by taking charge of security policy at the expense of efficiency

Author

• Rafael Ch, Princeton University