leading people by family ties, while corruption is a permanent risk for the economic system, but also for the country's legal … system. The purpose of this paper is to analyze nepotism, effects of nepotism, and to analyze the impact of corruption on the …

, increased political corruption, and weaker rule of law. We also find that the deleterious effects of political clientelism are …It is widely believed that clientelism-the giving of material goods in return for electoral support-is associated with … poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on …