, 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 …

, 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 …

-ideological voters, who care about national and local policies, strongly prefer experts. We show that parties compete on good politicians … prediction. We find that politicians with higher ex-ante quality - as measured by years of schooling, previous market income, and …, the characteristics of politicians belonging to opposite parties converge to high-quality levels in close races …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …

, 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 …

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

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 …