corruption. This paper analyzes new data showing that propaganda influenced election outcomes by weakening biracial political … twentieth century. Specifically, I find evidence that insinuations of public corruption motivated voters to the polls and split … large changes in exposure to propaganda were needed to influence election outcomes when voters were routinely exposed to …

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …

corruption. This paper analyzes new data showing that propaganda influenced election outcomes by weakening biracial political … twentieth century. Specifically, I find evidence that insinuations of public corruption motivated voters to the polls and split … large changes in exposure to propaganda were needed to influence election outcomes when voters were routinely exposed to …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …

We estimate the causal effect of the electoral system on corruption by leveraging a specificity of the French electoral … system. Exploiting that discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design and using survey and actual corruption data, we … find that the proportional list system results in higher levels of perceived and actual corruption than the individual …