I examine the role of party dominance on elected politicians’ career path. Politicians’ career is divided between political and technical or administrative posts. To examine this relationship, I use data from the Mexican states over the period 2000‐2014. The paper exploits the 2008 US financial crisis as a source of exogenous variation in incumbents’ popularity level. Results support theoretical predictions that elected politicians’ profile in states with a dominant party changed more than in competitive states after the financial crisis. I find that after the 2008 US financial crisis, political experience of new elected governors in states with a dominant party decreased by 36 percentage points, on average, compared to states with no dominant party. Results are robust to different measures of political and technical or administrative career path.

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谁来办公室？党的统治地位，并选举管理人员的职业发展道路

我考察了政党主导地位对民选政治家职业道路的作用。政治家的职业分为政治和技术或行政职位。为了检验这种关系，我使用了2000-2014年期间墨西哥各州的数据。本文利用2008年美国金融危机作为现任企业受欢迎程度外生差异的来源。结果支持理论预测当选的政治家与一方霸主美国的个人资料有竞争力的国家在金融危机后变化超过。我发现，2008年美国金融危机爆发后，在美国的新当选州长的政治经验，以一方霸主下降了36个百分点，平均而言，相较于没有一方霸主的状态。结果对于政治，技术或行政职业道路的不同衡量指标是可靠的。