Under What Conditions Do Ministers Engage in Local Favoritism?

• In Event: Parties, Partisanship, and Candidates in Africa

Brief Overview

We show that ministers in Africa increase the wealth of their region of origin, on average. The results are driven by certain ministerial portfolios and by countries with strong ethnoregional cleavages.

Authors

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland

• Brandon de la Cuesta, Stanford University