Political Brokerage as a Profession: Evidence from Mexico

• In Event: Political Elites and Intermediaries

Brief Overview

We study the economic trajectory of party brokers by surveying those who worked for a major party in Mexico. Results show that brokers attain higher upward mobility compared to party sympathizers and to a random sample of Mexican population.

Authors

• Pablo Balan, Tel Aviv University

• Tesalia Elisa Rizzo, University of California-Merced