incentives to reduce corruption. In this paper we study the effect of electoral competition on corruption when uncertainty in … case there is a U-shaped relationship between electoral competition and corruption. The U-shape becomes flatter as …

In this paper we study the effect of electoral competition on corruption. Our theory shows that when electoral … and corruption. We illustrate the predictions of the model with village level data on audit-detected irregularities and …

We analyze the relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic … (perceived) corruption than open-list PR, we demonstrate that this relationship fails to hold once district magnitude is …-list contexts. Extending this insight, we show that political corruption gets more (less) severe as district magnitude increases …