Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite true for the minority party. The effect increases with greater numerical dominance of the majority (and so social homogeneity). Empirical evidence from a survey on politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions.
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2007-06
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Authors: | Banerjee, Abhijit V. ; Pande, Rohini |
Institutions: | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
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