Incentivizing Anticorruption Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexican Subnational Legislatures

• In Event: The Effects (and Non-Effects) of Electoral Systems on Legislator Behavior and Representation

Brief Overview

I leverage an original dataset on anticorruption legislation in Mexico and exploit an overlap between a reform that required states to create local anticorruption systems and a reelection reform that created subnational variation in term limits.

Author

• Gustavo A Guajardo, Rice University