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This document analyzes how term limits and weak political parties in Brazil impact accountability and electoral outcomes. Using data from Brazilian mayoral elections between 1996-2012, it finds that becoming the incumbent party results in large subsequent losses. It theorizes that term limits combined with weak party attachments affect politician incentives in a way that hurts their party

Author

Jose Luis Castro Montero

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