corruption when politicians otherwise perform well in office, delivering public goods to their constituents. We test these …What explains persistent political corruption in many young democracies? Focusing on the effects of corruption on … individual-level attitudes, we present two hypotheses for why citizens might be willing to cast ballots for corrupt politicians …

lead to equilibria, where politicians receive corruption bribes. Furthermore, the model implies a non … politicians. Two political frictions (ideological adherence and a super- majority requirement) impair political competition and …-monotonic relationship between financial openness and corruption and a positive relationship between financial openness and government size …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

registration data to study how ideological alignment between politicians and bureaucrats affects the personnel policies and …

consistent with public employees having an information advantage over other politicians, and thus, being able to influence policy …