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In addition to my own data, I could count with Miguel De Luca's (2004) database
on candidate selection mechanisms for governors. However, given the temporal breaks
of his analysis, I would have had to dismiss data after 2003. Since my idea is to test the
whole democratic period between 1983 and 2007, 1 made the choice of not using this
information, and just rely on data on effective candidacy in general elections as the
proxy for ambition. Further stages of this project will collect the missing data to
complete the sequence of subnational pre-candidacies.
Figure 4.1: Party Strip Ballot for the 1999 Elections - Province of Mendoza
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Having collected all the required information, I still have to develop the right
variables to test my theoretical questions. I am interested in unfolding legislative
behavior conditional to political ambition, especially when it is linked to subnational
executive positions. As mentioned, I have two variables {title and description) which
include information about the content of each bill. Hence, in order to create my main
covariates, I need to capture what territorial reference is being targeted in the legislative