, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The … incompetence shown by the government in providing relief, the corruption allegations in regards to those efforts, and government … parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …

politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

, they will be more likely to run for election; for the same reason, they will also be more likely to shirk once elected … empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is … in fact a non-negligible fraction of citizens with remarkably high pre-election income who are appointed in parliament …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public … determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments, constructed from …