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ballots are won over by clientelism rather than by economic development, thus undermining the quality of collective goods … influential retrospective evaluations of performance. The evidence suggests that clientelism as an electoral strategy may be …
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Is the strength of favoritism from social ties gender-dependent? Collecting election data of the most distinguished Chinese scientific academies over a decade, we find favoritism from some social connections, such as sharing a hometown, college, or employer, between recruiters and candidates can...
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queuing theory to first show that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular group of …
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queuing theory to first demonstrate that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular group …
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This paper proposes a preliminary economic model of political clientelism and corruption in developing countries with … electoral clientelism, and (iii) strategies of geographical/ethnic entities on remaining within a given republic or breaking … consolidate power by blending in state violence. Political clientelism and corruption are likely to provoke geographically …
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In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...
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