Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We distinguish between three sets of rights – property rights, political rights, and civil rights – and provide a taxonomy of political…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
This paper examines the linkage between mobilization and elite capture in participatory institutions using a randomized experiment in Kenya…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in…
Although in theory elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that…
Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
Many elections confront challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity, including in established democracies such as…