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Who’s getting the office? Party dominance and elected executives’ career path
Author(s) -
Ramos Pastrana Julio A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/kykl.12259
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , politics , popularity , exploit , political science , career path , financial crisis , public administration , economics , political economy , business , management , law , macroeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , computer security , computer science , gene
I examine the role of party dominance on elected politicians’ career path. Politicians’ career is divided between political and technical or administrative posts. To examine this relationship, I use data from the Mexican states over the period 2000‐2014. The paper exploits the 2008 US financial crisis as a source of exogenous variation in incumbents’ popularity level. Results support theoretical predictions that elected politicians’ profile in states with a dominant party changed more than in competitive states after the financial crisis. I find that after the 2008 US financial crisis, political experience of new elected governors in states with a dominant party decreased by 36 percentage points, on average, compared to states with no dominant party. Results are robust to different measures of political and technical or administrative career path.