Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that … distortionary tax. We demonstrate the possibility that yardstick competition itself fails to restrict rent seeking. We complement … static case. -- Yardstick competition ; rent-seeking ; public good ; electoral incentives …

literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition …How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … among corrupt officials. This paper shows that even a benevolent government might not encourage competition among officials …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially … depends on the effectiveness of monitoring bureaucrat's behavior. The benefits of interjurisdictional competition only occur …

-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts …

zero effort) and not accepting (and exerting her optimal effort). In some cases, the competition between players and the …

the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small. -- elections ; polarization ; strategic delegation ; bureaucracy …

middle class to sink their human capital into a relatively unproductive bureaucracy. Thus the bureaucracy serves as an …' incentive to revolt on the one hand and the elite's incentive to subsidize participation in the inefficient bureaucracy on the …