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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy
Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016
This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the analysis argues that (ex) members of parliament are appointed to managerial boards in italian (partially) state-owned enterprises responding to political selection rationales....
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Campaign connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
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Power, scrutiny, and congressmen's favoritism for friends' firms
Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - 2023
Does higher office always lead to more favoritism? We argue that firms may lose their benefit from a connected politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that...
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Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization
Cheng, Hui-Pei - 2020
favoritism broadly toward political immigrants via cronyism (allocating public sector positions) and also differentially toward …
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Political economy of mass media : public good, news and voting behaviour
Scagliusi, Cosimo - 2010
paper I focus on the role of media as "watchdog". In an agency relationship between politician and citizens, media perform … the incumbent politician is channelled through mass media only. This work investigates how citizen's voting decision and … collusion between media and politicians change if two pieces of information about the politician are available: media …
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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...
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When criminality begets crime : the role of elected politicians in India
Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...
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Exposition to corruption and political participation : evidence from Italian municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on...
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Do voters or politicians choose the outcomes of elections? : evidence from high-stakes U.S. state legislative elections
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay - 2017
We study whether political parties exert precise control over the outcomes of legislative elections. We test for discontinuities in two outcomes that, in the absence of precise control, should be smooth at the threshold that determines control of the legislature: the identity of the party that...
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The Effects of Bureaucracy on Political Accountability and Electoral Selection
Yazaki, Yukihiro - 2016
This paper examines how bureaucracy affects political accountability and electoral selection, using a three-tier political agency model with voters, politicians and bureaucrats. In the model's hierarchy, politicians are constrained by election while bureaucrats are controlled by the budget....
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