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Condoning Corruption : Who Votes for Corrupt Political Parties?

Jha, Chandan Kumar - 2022

electorates' tolerance for corruption remains extremely limited. This paper explores individual characteristics and macroeconomic … involved in a corruption scandal and (2) to abstain from voting, even when an established non-corrupt party exists. I identify … corruption scandal. Additionally, macroeconomic factors such as political rights, openness, and education levels significantly …

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Globalization, Time-Preferences, and Populist Voting

Aronsson, Thomas - 2020

Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...

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Essays on the political economy of inequality and redistribution

Campante, Filipe R. - 2007

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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature

Ocampo, Emilio - 2019

analysis of populism draws concepts from other social sciences such political theory, sociology, history and social psychology. …

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Genuine Wealth Per Capita As a Measure of Sustainability and the Negative Impact of Corruption on Sustainable Growth in Sub-Sahara Africa

Forson, Joseph Ato - 2017

In this paper, we argue that the answer to the question of whether the impact of corruption on development is … corruption, we are able to point out that institutions play important role in insulating citizens against the devastation caused … by corruption. Overall, through this comparison, we are able to signal that both incidental and systematic corruption …

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The Fight Against Corruption at Global Level. A Metric Approach

Laureti, Lucio; Costantiello, Alberto; Leogrande, Angelo - 2023

In this article we estimate the level of Control of Corruption for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using data … Data with Fixed Effects, Pooled OLS, WLS. Results show that “Control of Corruption” is positively associated, among others …. A confrontation among eight Machine Learning algorithms is proposed for the prediction of Control of Corruption …

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Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms

Boyer, Pierre C.; Esslinger, Christoph; Roberson, Brian - 2021

We develop a two-period model of redistributive politics in which two politicians compete in an election in each period. In the first period, the politicians propose both whether to experiment with an efficient reform with uncertain benefits and choose the amount of public debt. Politicians also...

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Political institutions, state capabilities and public policy : international evidence

Scartascini, Carlos G. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries&' formal institutions (e.g., political...

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Is polarization bad?

Testa, Cecilia - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1104-1118

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