Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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JEL Classification: D72, J45
Keywords: political competition, outside earnings, political rents
Corresponding … elected politicians to extract rents or simply to shirk. Political
rents may take various forms, such as pork-barrel projects … outside earnings
decrease. In this perspective, electoral competition limits political rents.
As our main contribution to the …