Electoral Competition and Corruption
Electoral competition, electoral uncertainty and corruption: Theory ...
We illustrate the predictions of the model with village level data on audit-detected irregularities and electoral competition from India. Our results imply that ...
Electoral competition and corruption: Evidence from municipality ...
Abstract. Using data from audits of municipal governments in Greece, I test the hypothesis that electoral competition reduces corruption. Because local election ...
The evidence for the electoral accountability theory, in which voters are expected to vote against political candidates linked to corruption, is ...
The relationship between electoral integrity and corruption
The evidence for the electoral accountability theory, in which voters are expected to vote against political candidates linked to corruption, is mixed. In some ...
Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline ...
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corrup...
Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption
We follow the literature in interpreting more competitive elections as those with lower valence advantage for any one candidate. We incorporate ...
Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?
We find that, all things being equal, corruption risks increase in the immediate pre-election period: single bidding is higher by 1.3–6.1% points.
8 Corruption and Competition - Oxford Academic
However, public officials who do not face competitive elections have less need for campaign contributions, and therefore less incentive to engage in some forms ...
Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India
In developing countries with weak enforcement, there is implicitly a large reliance on re-election incentives to reduce corruption. In this ...
Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from ...
candidate model to argue that politician quality is maximized when voter groups are equally sized (high political competition) because it leads ...
Electoral Rules and Corruption
In proportional representation (PR) systems, voters instead choose between different party lists and candidates are selected from these lists depending on the ...
Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory ...
In this paper we study the effect of electoral competition on corruption. Our theory shows that when electoral uncertainty is high, as is expected in many ...
(PDF) Corruption and Political Competition - ResearchGate
PDF | There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of special interest ...
Exposing corruption: Can electoral competition discipline politicians?
Downloadable! In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instil norms of accountability and reduce ...
Effects of Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Corruption on ...
That is, when, after 1993, the. Italian electoral system became majoritarian (or rather, less proportional), public consumption spending (as a percentage of GDP) ...
ELECTORAL RULES AND CORRUPTION - Oxford Academic
Consistent with the theoretical hypothesis on the ballot structure, corruption is higher the larger is the fraction of candidates elected on party lists. The ...
Full article: Electoral fraud and the paradox of political competition
Using novel pre-election polling data for 109 presidential elections around the world between 1996 and 2016, results suggest that ex ante ...
Anti-Corruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies
We examine electoral manipulation, as credible anti-corruption reforms may increase pressure on corrupt elites to fraudulently maintain power.
Electoral competition, accountability and corruption: Theory…
In developing countries with weak enforcement institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on electoral incentives to reduce corruption. However electoral ...
THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM INDIA* - GI-ACE
In this paper we study the effect of electoral competition on corruption when uncertainty in elections is high (or accountability is low), as in ...