Impeachments, Partisan Alignment and the Local Bureaucracy: Evidence from Peru
Do political crisis at the national level alter or shift service delivery allocation at the local level? When budget planning and expenditure practices are regulated by law, the provision of public goods and services should be reflective of a locality’s needs. This paper uses rich administrative micro-data to study the effects of critical political events at the national level on the spending decisions of local bureaucrats and how these vary depending on the local government’s party alignment with respect to the incumbent in power at the national level. I study this relationship leveraging on Peru’s political crises represented by three presidential impeachments and the dissolution of Congress in a four-year period.
Date: 26 May 2022, 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab (2nd floor) - and on Zoom
Speaker: Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno (LSE)
Organisers: Musashi Harukawa (University of Oxford), Klaudia Wegschaider (University of Oxford), Marta Antonetti (University of Oxford), Nelson Ruiz (University of Oxford)
Host: Klaudia Wegschaider (University of Oxford)
Part of: Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Klaudia Wegschaider