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BIEDA, Tomás  y  TACCONE, Nicolás. Every breath you take, I will be watching you: contestation and provincial control of national legislators’ political careers in Argentina. Rev. Urug. Cienc. Polít. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.1, pp.85-109. ISSN 0797-9789.

Most of the literature about the Argentinean National Congress submits that, notwithstanding the province they represent, legislators do not professionalize in office. However, this paper argues that the level of provincial politicalcontestation is a relevant variable in order to explain this phenomenon. A lower level of political contestation would be associated with a greater professionalism from legislators, since governors do not consider them as political challengers. On the contrary,in the face ofa greater level of provincial political contestation, governors woulddiscouragetheir professionalization to diminish the threat to theirsurvival in office. The statistical analysiscoversthe period 1999-2013, and contemplates all Argentinean senators and deputies elected at the national level.

Palabras clave : Political contestation; legislative professionalism; Argentina.

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