It is commonly argued that wage-setting is everywhere becoming less centralized due to changes in production, occupational structure, and economic integration. In this paper we present new data on the extent to which wage-setting institutions have changed since 1950 in countries in the northern...

The eight countries examined in this study-Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden-have long been viewed as exemplifying "corporatist" industrial relations systems, in which union coverage is high, unions are influential and commonly have strong ties to...

Utilizing new data on criminal charges against candidates to India's Fourteenth and Fifteenth Lok Sabha elections, we study the conditions that resulted in approximately a quarter of those elected to each legislature facing or having previously faced criminal charges. We show that Indian...

We review a decade of literature on clientelism, a central topic in the study of developing democracies. We define clientelism as the discretionary distribution of public resources by politicians. We distinguish clientelism that occurs in the pre-electoral period (electoral clientelism) from...

Utilizing data from the power corporation of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, we study the politics of electricity theft over a ten year period (2000-09). Our preliminary results are that electricity theft is substantial in magnitude but that the extent of theft varies with the...

Utilizing a new dataset that reports criminal charges against candidates to India's Fourteenth Lok Sabha in the 2004 national legislative elections, we study the conditions that resulted in nearly a quarter of those elected facing or having previously faced criminal charges. We show that Indian...

We use a randomized saturation design to investigate whether domestic election observers reduce electoral fraud in the 2012 presidential elections in Ghana. Results show that observers reduce the probability of overvoting (more votes cast than registered voters) at observed stations by 60...

The eight countries examined in this study--Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden--have long been viewed as exemplifying "corporatist" industrial relations systems, in which union coverage is high, unions are influential and commonly have strong ties to...