Political Turnover, Bureacratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services
We study how political party turnover in mayoral elections in Brazil affects the provision of public education. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design for close elections, we find that municipalities with a new party in office have test scores that are 0.05-0.08 standard deviations lower than comparable municipalities with no change in the political party.
Akhtari, Mitra, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco