Local Knowledge as a Political Investment

• In Event: Elite Political Attitudes and Behavior

Brief Overview

We test the hypothesis that winning elections incentivizes politicians to acquire detailed local knowledge about their communities. We do this using a survey of local politicians in Meexico and a regression discontinuity design.

Authors

• Pablo Balan, Tel Aviv University

• Tesalia Elisa Rizzo Reyes, University of California-Merced

• Mart Trasberg, Tecnologico de Monterrey

• Ana Cecilia De Alba Gonzalez, Tecnologico de Monterrey