Bologna Pavlik, Jamie; Jahan, Israt; Young, Andrew T. - 2021
capita. They argue that this may be the case because longer constitutions lead to greater corruption. However, uncovering a … whether there is a causal effect of constitutional length on corruption. We utilize data from the Comparative Constitutions … effect from a “Chavez effect” (Grier and Maynard 2016). The evidence that longer constitutions corrupt is weak …