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office. If the broad notion of "electoral connection" was right, a legislator that cares
about her future should do any kind of constituency service in order to improve her
reputations and bases of support. If the expectations were at the municipal level, most of
the efforts should be directed to that district. If the goal was to become a governor, the
province at large and/or multiple sub-constituencies should be the target. In this
dissertation, I will focus on the empirical assessment of the theoretical intuitions
described above. The underlying presumption is that ambitious politicians who have a
subnational executive position as a reference should use legislation prospectively to
further those ambitions. Thus far, no single scientific piece has dealt with the question of
the impact ambition has on legislative activity beyond the U.S. In order to fill that gap, I
plan to make both, a theoretical and empirical contribution. Specifically, I plan to
develop an explanation for determinants of legislative activity in multilevel systems
with progressive ambition.

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