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Political corruption, public procurement, and budget composition: Theory and evidence from OECD countries

Hessami, Zohal - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 372-389

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

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Corruption and the effects of economic freedom

Pieroni, L.; d'Agostino, G. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 54-72

The prediction that economic freedom is beneficial in reducing corruption has not been found to be universally robust …-country variations of the microfounded economic freedom–corruption relationship using multilevel models. Additionally, we analyse this … relationship by disentangling the determinants for several components of economic freedom because not all areas affect corruption …

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Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? Evidence from the German parliament

Bernecker, Andreas - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 55-70

Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political shirking? For a micro-analysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information about German Members of Parliament (MPs), including their attendance rates in voting...

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Divisive politics and accountability

Kiss, Áron - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 2, pp. 208-214

The paper analyzes a political accountability game with an electorate of ‘partisan’ and ‘independent’ voters. It is shown that politicians have a strategic incentive to engage in ‘divisive politics’, that is, to force some independent voters to take sides, even if the direct...

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Outside earnings, absence, and activity: Evidence from German parliamentarians

Arnold, Felix; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 147-157

We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of parliament (MPs) have to publish details of their outside earnings. Using panel data models, we investigate how outside earnings are correlated with absence and parliamentary...

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The economic determinants of U.S. presidential approval: A survey

Berlemann, Michael; Enkelmann, Sören - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 41-54

Even after four decades of research it remains unclear, whether presidential popularity depends on the state of the economy. While about half of all studies for the United States find a significant effect of unemployment and inflation on presidential popularity, the others do not. Additional...

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Corruption scandals, voter information, and accountability

Costas-Pérez, Elena; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 469-484

We study the effects of the availability of information about corruption scandals on electoral outcomes. The paper uses … a novel and rich database with information on corruption scandals that affected Spanish local governments during the …'s vote loss after a corruption scandal can rise to 14% when we consider cases in which the incumbent has been charged with …

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Voter preferences, direct democracy and government spending

Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 300-319

This article uses unique voting data on 331 federal propositions to estimate voter preferences in Swiss cantons. We document that preferences vary systematically with cantonal characteristics. In particular, cantons whose voters are more conservative, less in favor of redistribution and less...

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Nudges and norms: On the political economy of soft paternalism

Schnellenbach, Jan - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 2, pp. 266-277

This paper discusses soft (or libertarian) paternalism, as proposed among others by Thaler and Sunstein (2008). It is argued that soft paternalism should not be understood as an efficiency-enhancing, but as a redistributive concept. The relationship between soft paternalism and social norms is...

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Do term limits affect fiscal policy choices?

Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 681-692

According to reputational models of Political Economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We use a dynamic panel data estimation strategy to test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977–2000, using...

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