We analyze a novel lobbying channel: firms shifting spending toward a politician's business in the hope of securing favorable regulation.…
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…