There are two common views of pork barrel spending. One is that pork barrel spending benefits special interests at the expense of social welfare, hence antithetical to responsible policymaking, especially in times of crisis. An alternative is that pork “greases the legislative wheels” making...

The initial impact of the Asian financial crisis in Malaysia reduced the expected value of government subsidies to politically favored firms. Of the estimated $60 billion loss in market value for politically connected firms from July 1997 to August 1998, roughly 9% can be attributed to the fall...

This paper develops a theory of political behavior in which moral values are a luxury good: the relative weight that voters place on moral rather than material considerations increases in income. This idea both generates new testable implications and ties together a broad set of empirical...

"Varias causas explican la tremenda corrupción de la vida política que padece México. Una son los gremios medievales que ocupan la presidencia: los presidentes generales, los licenciados en derecho, los posgraduados en las universidades de los EE.UU., cuyo principio es el libertinaje...

In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate higher equity returns for FTSE 350...

Argentina is waiting its inclusion as a fully member of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this respect, Argentina has presented an Action Plan 2016/2017 that includes public policies reforms in order to reinforce economic growth, competitiveness and the...

Argentina is waiting its inclusion as a fully member of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this respect, Argentina has presented an Action Plan 2016/2017 that includes public policies reforms in order to reinforce economic growth, competitiveness and the...

Migration and the contested politics of justice : an introduction / Giorgio Grappi -- Controversies, paradoxes and contested justice in European policies on migration / Catherine Wihtol de Wenden -- Struggles and repair work in the wake of 2015 / Sonja Buckel and Judith Kopp -- The global...

Im Frühjahr 2013 wurde bekannt, dass bayerische Landtagsabgeordnete Verwandte als Mitarbeiter angestellt hatten und diese mit Steuergeldern bezahlt wurden. Eine neue Studie, die untersucht, ob die Verwicklung in den Skandal das Wahlergebnis der CSU und die Wahlbeteiligung beeinflusst hat, zeigt...

Den Mitgliedern des Bayerischen Landtags war es lange Zeit erlaubt, Verwandte als Büroangestellte zu beschäftigen, doch seit 2000 wurde dieses Verfahren, mit der Ausnahme der Weiterbeschäftigung von bereits eingestellten Verwandten, verboten. Eine Untersuchung zeigt, dass die...

Im Frühjahr 2013 wurde bekannt, dass bayerische Landtagsabgeordnete Verwandte als Mitarbeiter angestellt hatten und diese mit Steuergeldern bezahlt wurden. Eine neue Studie, die untersucht, ob die Verwicklung in den Skandal das Wahlergebnis der CSU und die Wahlbeteiligung beeinflusst hat, zeigt...

This study reports on the hierarchy of organizational values in public and private sector organizations in Slovenia and the Netherlands. We surveyed 400 managers in Slovenia and 382 in the Netherlands using an identical questionnaire on the importance of a selection of values in everyday...

The paper first surveys the literature on accountability and establishes a categorization of the different ways by which civil society can interact with the state in order to improve accountability. It then explores in detail seven case studies of successful experiences of state-society synergy...

La 4e de couverture indique : "Depuis les années 1970, on assiste à une tentative de moralisation de la vie politique. Par des biais parfois très différents, certains pays ont cherché à clarifier les modes de financement de la vie politique afin de lutter contre la corruption et...

In most countries, Parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee government and to hold government to account; often, audit institutions, ombuds and anti-corruption agencies report to parliament, as a means of ensuring both their independence from government and reinforcing...

What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types of policy decisions that have been delegated to local politicians—beneficiary selection for transfer programs and the allocation of within-village public...

Nach seinen Büchern "Was man für Geld nicht kaufen kann" und "Gerechtigkeit" hat der renommierte Harvard-Professor für Politische Philosophie Sandel in diesem Band über 20 Essays zusammengestellt, die er in den letzten 3 Jahrzehnten in Fachzeitschriften publiziert hat. Im 1. Teil der...

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

In this paper, we investigate a channel through which social (or civic) capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability. The main idea is that voters who share values and beliefs that foster cooperation are more likely to base their vote on...

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. We develop a simple model to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that there...

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

We use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. We develop a simple model to predict the effects on different policies of increasing local leader accountability, taking into account that there...