Braendle, Thomas; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2011
Countries differ substantially in how they deal with politicians that come from the public sector. Most constitutions … the public service. We study how these rules affect the attractiveness of parliamentary mandates for public servants … and thus the selection into politics. We compile a novel dataset that captures the fraction of public servants in …