“…Research on transfers as resources for coalition-building and maintenance has found evidence of such use in Argentina (Remmer and Wibbels, 2000;Gibson and Calvo, 2001;Jones, 2001;Tommasi et al, 2001;Remmer and Gelineau, 2003;Bonvecchi and Lodola, 2010), Brazil (Ames, 2001;Pereira and Mueller, 2002;Arretche and Rodden, 2004), Colombia (Crisp and Ingall, 2002), Mexico (Flamand, 2006;Magaloni et al, 2007), and Peru (Schady, 2000). The findings in this literature suggest that transfer allocations vary with the most relevant factors in each political system: overrepresentation of poor districts and local electoral contests in Argentina, regional clout and legislative party size in Brazil, territorial distribution of partisan support in Colombia and Peru, and territorial distribution of poverty and partisan support in…”