Electoral Competition and Corruption

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Abstract. This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as greater voter preference for the party representing her ethnic group, ...

Electoral competition - Wikipedia

Electoral competition, political competition or electoral competitiveness describes the amount of competition in electoral politics between candidates or ...

The role of political competition in the link between electoral systems ...

Alfano Maria R., Baraldi Anna L. (2012) 'Is There an Optimal Level of Political Competition in Terms of Economic Growth? Evidence from Italy', European Journal ...

Political Agency, Election Quality, and Corruption

How does electoral manipulation affect elected officials' willingness to satisfy their constituents? Although the literature has highlighted the role of ...

Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of ...

We show that political institutions affect corruption levels. We use corruption audit reports in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in ...

4. Corruption and democratic institutions: a review and synthesis

Do democratic elections help reduce corruption? Many reformers—both anti- corruption advocates and democracy promoters—hope and believe the answer is yes.

I believe this paper on electoral competition and corruption is ...

Summary of the model: First the two parties decide their embezzlement versus campaign spending fractions of any contribution that comes (perhaps this ...

Political Competition, Electoral System and Corruption: the Italian case

Of course, the probability to be re-elected by a corrupt politician is less than that of an honest one. Therefore, politicians face a trade-off ...

Electoral Rules and Corruption*

Larger voting districts — and thus lower bar- riers to entry — are associated with less corruption, whereas larger shares of candidates elected from party lists ...

Ballots and Bills: Electoral Competition in Political Marketplaces

This paper examines the reality of electoral competition and how it intersects with political marketplace dynamics using the 2023 elections ...

The Dark Side of Political Competition in Russia's Regions - jstor

The data on public perceptions of corruption in Russian regions produced by Transpar ency International and the Information for Democracy Foundation (INDEM) ...

Political finance | IFES

Transparent and accountable political finance systems enhance election integrity and strengthen the ability of democracies to deliver for all.

Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field ...

We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in Afghanistan.

Corruption, Democracy and Privately Financed Infrastructure Abstract

In contrast, countries with non-competitive elections are associated with an increase in the number of public infrastructure projects as corruption in the ...

Replication data for: Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud

We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in Afghanistan.

Elections and corruption: Politics and public procurement in India

Political interference in government contract allocation when ruling power changes hands, combined with lack of accountability, leads to corruption.

Electoral Incentives for Political Corruption under Open-List ...

This paper hypothesizes that under open-list proportional representation in which personal votes are expensive yet critical for politicians to win election,

Can Democracy Limit Corruption? - V-Dem

During a process of liberalization, the circle of people whose support is needed widens to eventually include all citizens in elections, and use of violence and ...

more than combating corruption: the other benefits of public financing

Among the most vital tools to combat the corrupting influence of outsized campaign spending is public funding of elections. For more than three decades, ...

Competition and Corruption: Lessons from 150 Years of Industrial ...

This paper argues that political corruption and market competitiveness are inversely related. Highly competitive markets drive out corruption, while.