@techreport{NBERw13008,
 title = "Factions and Political Competition",
 author = "Nicola Persico and José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "13008",
 year = "2007",
 month = "April",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13008",
 abstract = {This paper presents a new model of political competition where candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization of the party to the allocation of resources. Several key theoretical predictions of the model find a counterpart in our empirical analysis of newly coded data on the provision of water services in Mexico.},
}