Although repression against elites is a common occurrence in authoritarian regimes, we know little about which are targeted. This paper uses an original dataset on the prosecution of mayors large Russian cities to examine factors that make elites more likely be arrested. We argue electoral regimes like Russia, regime leaders reluctant arrest popular ocials. Such ocials command political ...

Local political authority (formal or informal) over natural resources may create rents for politicians. The political decision to use or allocate resources involves balancing private rents with reelection prospects. I examine the case of deforestation in Brazil and a presidential decree granting the federal government the authority to punish counties that failed to limit total deforestation wit...

— The success of efforts to decentralize governance responsibilities hinges upon the incentives of local politicians. We test this argument by studying the experiences of forestry sector decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala. We analyze the survey responses of 200 mayors and show that local-level institutional incentives are systematically linked to variations in local politicians’ interest...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the assistance quality through the perception of the users and municipal health managers (mayors, health secretaries and screening team). METHODS A transversal and descriptive study was carried out. RESULTS The sample was comprised by 359 users and 48 managers. Medical assistance was considered excellent by 79.6% of the users, 93.7% of the managers, 87.5...

Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to office has not greatly improved the well-being of the black community. This study focuses on the white community, however, and finds that black leadership can have a profound effect. Under black mayors there is positive change in the white vote and in the racial sentiments expressed ...

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after ...

This article analyzes the public participation of rural inhabitants in Poland. It aims to identify types residents terms their local participation. In our research, we adopted triangulation approach involving using two data, qualitative and quantitative, from research including respondents: mayors communes inhabitants. On this basis, typologies were created, which then confronted. First, author...