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Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or infuence...
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Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or in?uence...
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. According to our preferred interpretation, these events provide evidence that, under weak institutions, popular mobilization and …
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excessively costly, second-best intervention may involve a certain fraction of bureaucrats accepting bribes. When corruption is …Because government intervention transfers resources from one party to another, it creates room for corruption. As … corruption often undermines the purpose of the intervention, governments will try to prevent it. They may create rents for …
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We develop a theory of political transitions inspired by the experiences of Western Europe and Latin America. Nondemocratic societies are controlled by a rich elite. The initially disenfranchised poor can contest power by threatening revolution, especially when the opportunity cost is low, for...
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Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220651
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303076
were commanded by colonels and in those where checks coming from civilian judicial institutions were weaker. We further … worsening of local judicial institutions and the security situation, with more frequent attacks not just by the guerillas but …
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