plan:

intro

this document outlines the vision for the third paper in my dissertation.

research questions

• who benefits from patronage and what is the difference in compensation?
  • what are the areas of the bureaucracy most exposed to partisanship?
  • can we identify which sectors individuals are coming from?
• understand the flows of party members into the bureaucracy.
  • which areas are these individuals coming into?
  • are they treated differentially?
• private gains from employment vs. public gains from better services.
  • frame it in terms of the immediate gains from employment vs. an uncertain benefit from services.
  • similar to the tragedy of the commons: once enough of us are doing it, the electric grid collapses (gato).

requirements

• identified rais panel data:
  • complete
• partisanship data:
  • complete
• city councilors - and their own earnings
  • complete
• qualitative evidence
• create sql database using SQLite
  • complete

timeline

• give a sense of the magnitude of the gains from employment.
• compare private gains vs. public gains from better services.