Political Patronage and Its Consequences

Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso. 2020. “Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations.” American Economic Review 110 (10): 3071-3099.
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Do politicians use public sector jobs to reward their political supporters? What are the consequences for who works in government?

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[andrefigueredo]

I'm Brazilian and I have to congratulate you for the quality and effort put into this work, also I confirm that our system of public office has positions freely appointed and dismissed by the winning candidates at every level, furthermore, those that pass civil exams are often shifted from important positions since they are protected by the law from being fired creating a mixed system of patronage dependent positions and civil exam ones.
Partisan politics often require families to support a candidate in order to keep one member in a commissioned position, thus incumbents have a higher probability of victory.
Finally, it is important to note that our democracy is young and inexperienced, most similar in fact to the spoils system that existed in America in the nineteenth century.

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