Karahan, Gökhan; Coats, R.; Shughart, William - In: Public Choice 126 (2006) 1, pp. 87-106
An FBI investigation of county purchasing activities in the mid 1980s resulted in the conviction of 55 of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors. Analyzing data from the state's 1987 county supervisor elections and hypothesizing that candidates' demands for votes increase as the gains from holding...