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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of … Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is … than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962213
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941292
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872787
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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives
Long, Ngo Van (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730296
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Yardstick Competition, Corruption, and Electoral Incentives
Van Long, Ngo - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771407
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Bureaucrats in Parliament: Theory and Evidence on its Determinants in Germany
Braendle, Thomas; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public administration and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390630
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Public servants in parliament: Theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Stutzer, Alois; Braendle, Thomas - 2009
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428802
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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012
We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283593
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Judical independence and the validity of converted elections
Franck, Raphaël - 2009
This article examines whether the judges of the French Constitutional Court demonstrated partisanship when ruling on the validity of the elections to the lower house of the French Parliament between 1958 and 2005. It uses a new dataset on the decisions of the Constitutional Court which takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335999
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Political selection and the concentration of political power
Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015
This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two unobservable quality aspects: ability and public-spiritedness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430775