Strategic Investments in State Capacity under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Argentina

• In Event: JSS 13
  In JSS Session: Public Goods, Extraction, and Service Provision in the Developing World

Brief Overview

I find that national political elites invested in increasing legibility of economic assets in districts where opposition leaders held their wealth, whereas they invested relatively more on productivity-enhancing public goods in their districts.

Author

• Federico Hernan Tiberti, Princeton University