Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower … politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

capital we speculate that this is the result of incumbent politicians using their resources to establish clienteles. …

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central question. In this paper, we examine whether higher wages attract … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries’ of local legislators …

extracted by incumbent politicians. Exploiting variation induced by the existence of a term limit, we find that in … role in constraining politician’s corrupt behavior. …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is …