This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result … from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy …, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of resources between public and private expenditure, altering the …

Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of … Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is … than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is …