Using actual voting records of simultaneous elections held for Indian federal and regional assemblies -- where same …

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

Groups not only as a long run phenomenon but also in a short-run perspective, integrating it into the theory of political …-groups theory and the endeavors of governments to win the majority of votes in elections could look like, before we perform a time …