hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also …

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also …

I introduce a microfounded model of campaign finance with office-seeking politicians, a continuum of voters, and a … large number of heterogeneous lobbies. Lobbies make contributions to politicians according to a common agency framework …. Politicians use contributions to finance their electoral expenditures. Voters are not fooled by electoral expenditures: they are …

'contract clientelism', or the provision of public contracts to private firms in exchange for campaign donations. Using … goods provision. Politicians need to assign public contracts to secure funds for clientelistic handouts but, in so doing …

This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the … instrument to control and reward politicians' loyalty throughout a legislature. Especially in a majoritarian electoral system …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure …