Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors

Dictatorships can affect the functioning of new democracies but the mechanisms are poorly understood. We study the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile using new data and provide two findings. First, mayors appointed by Pinochet obtained a nine percentage point vote premium in the first local election in...

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Autores Principales: González, Felipe, Muñoz, Pablo, Prem, Mounu
Otros Autores: Grupo de Investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario
Formato: Documento de trabajo (Working Paper)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: 2019
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spelling ir-10336-203352020-02-12T21:20:23Z Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors González, Felipe Muñoz, Pablo Prem, Mounu Grupo de Investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario Economía Economía Dictarura Politicians Dictatorship Democracy D2 G2 G3 M2 Dictatorships can affect the functioning of new democracies but the mechanisms are poorly understood. We study the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile using new data and provide two findings. First, mayors appointed by Pinochet obtained a nine percentage point vote premium in the first local election in democracy. This premium is explained by an incumbency advantage and by an increase in local spending during the transition. Second, dictatorship mayors increased the vote share of right-wing political parties in democracy. We conclude that the dictatorship won "hearts and minds" before the transition and successfully maintained part of their political power. 2019-09-19 2019-09-25T14:34:27Z info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/20335 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess text/html application/pdf
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topic Economía
Economía
Dictarura
Politicians
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Democracy
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Economía
Dictarura
Politicians
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Democracy
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González, Felipe
Muñoz, Pablo
Prem, Mounu
Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
description Dictatorships can affect the functioning of new democracies but the mechanisms are poorly understood. We study the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile using new data and provide two findings. First, mayors appointed by Pinochet obtained a nine percentage point vote premium in the first local election in democracy. This premium is explained by an incumbency advantage and by an increase in local spending during the transition. Second, dictatorship mayors increased the vote share of right-wing political parties in democracy. We conclude that the dictatorship won "hearts and minds" before the transition and successfully maintained part of their political power.
author2 Grupo de Investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario
author_facet Grupo de Investigaciones. Facultad de Economía. Universidad del Rosario
González, Felipe
Muñoz, Pablo
Prem, Mounu
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author González, Felipe
Muñoz, Pablo
Prem, Mounu
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title Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
title_short Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
title_full Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
title_fullStr Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
title_full_unstemmed Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors
title_sort lost in transition? the persistence of dictatorship mayors
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