De Feo, Giuseppe; De Luca, Giacomo - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013
We study the impact of organized crime on electoral competition. Assuming that the mafia is able to bring votes to the … supported party in exchange of money, we show that (i) the strongest party is willing to pay the highest price to secure mafia … services; (ii) the volume of electoral trade with the mafia increases with political competition and with the efficiency of the …