Banerjee, Prasenjit; Iversen, Vegard; Mitra, Sandip; … - 2020
What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where … local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and … concern for reputation, our model predicts that politicians' effort is increasing in their reputation concern. With …