?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F44236%2F&rft.title=Political+competition+and+state+capacity%3A+evidence+from+a+land+allocation+program+in+Mexico&rft.creator=Fergusson%2C+Leopoldo&rft.creator=Larreguy%2C+Horacio&rft.creator=Riano%2C+Juan+Felipe&rft.subject=B-+ECONOMIE+ET+FINANCE&rft.description=We+develop+a+model+of+the+politics+of+state+capacity+building+undertaken+by+incum-bent+parties+that+have+a+comparative+advantage+in+clientelism+rather+than+in+public+goods+provision.+The+model+predicts+that%2C+when+challenged+by+opponents%2C+clientelistic+incumbents+have+the+incentive+to+prevent+investments+in+state+capacity.+We+provide+empirical+support+for+the+model%E2%80%99s+implications+by+studying+policy+decisions+by+the+Institutional+Revolutionary+Party+(PRI)+that+affected+local+state+capacity+across+Mex-ican+municipalities+and+over+time.+Our+difference-in-differences+and+instrumental+variable+identification+strategies+exploit+a+national+shock+that+threatened+the+Mexican+government%E2%80%99s+hegemony+in+the+early+1960s.+The+intensity+of+this+shock%2C+which+varied+across+municipalities%2C+was+partly+explained+by+severe+droughts+that+occurred+during+the+1950s.&rft.publisher=TSE+Working+Paper&rft.date=2022-01&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.ut-capitole.fr%2Fid%2Feprint%2F44236%2F1%2Fwp_tse_1293.pdf&rft.identifier=++Fergusson%2C+Leopoldo+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.idref.fr%2F254185819%3E%2C+Larreguy%2C+Horacio+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.idref.fr%2F257521666%3E+and+Riano%2C+Juan+Felipe++(2022)+Political+competition+and+state+capacity%3A+evidence+from+a+land+allocation+program+in+Mexico.++TSE+Working+Paper%2C+n.+22-1293%2C+Toulouse.+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Ftse-fr.eu%2Fpub%2F126517&rft.language=en