A fantastic paper by Guillermo Toral is now out in #AJPS: "How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil"

He argues that political appointments of bureaucrats can align values, incentives, and monitoring between these #politicians and #bureaucrats, leading to improved public service delivery.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12758