The reputational basis of policy success in comparative perspective: Evidence from the education sector in Peru and Bolivia
基于声誉理论，研究在官僚体系薄弱和政治不稳定的背景下，政治家如何通过干预政策来构建个人声誉，从而影响政策成功。对秘鲁和玻利维亚教育部门的混合方法分析表明，任期较短的政治家更倾向于积极推动政策以积累成功经验，而资深政治家则可能选择不作为以维护已有声誉。
Abstract This article, building on the emerging theoretical corpus of “reputation theory” provides an alternative explanation about how successful policies are obtained in contexts of bureaucratic weakness and volatile politics. The argument is that politicians choose to intervene in delivering successful policies based on how contributable such policies are to construct their political reputations. The findings suggest that in both countries, less tenured politicians face higher incentives to build their reputations, so they choose to deliver better policies to accumulate “successful experiences” as vitae for electoral purposes. Tenured politicians, in turn, opt for inaction or strategic delivery, to preserve their already won political reputations. The present article brings evidence from the education sector of Peru and Bolivia, a sector that has been at the core of these countries' priorities for decades. Through a mixed methods approach involving a panel regression and in‐depth interviews, results obtained largely confirm this article's claims.