The paper discussed in this episode is: “Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations”, by Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso. Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Akhtari, Mitra, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco. 2017. “Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover,

and the Quality of Public Services.” forthcoming, American Economic Review