Appointments and Disappointments: Revisiting Political Ambition in Brazil

• In Event: Candidate Entry and Political Ambition

Brief Overview

We examine the effects of political appointments in the context of Brazil. We run an elite survey to rank political positions and then use matching to causally test our hypotheses, finding that appointments increase electoral ambition and success.

Authors

• Joaquim Meira, Harvard University

• Timothy J. Power, University of Oxford

• Cesar Zucco, FGV Ebape