Debate persists on whether voters hold politicians accountable for corruption. Numerous
experiments have examined whether informing voters about corrupt acts of politicians …

Scholarly evidence of transparency's beneficial effects on trust and perceptions of corruption
remains debated and confined to the study of public administration. We contribute to this …

Forced-choice conjoint experiments have become a standard component of the
experimental toolbox in political science and sociology. Yet the literature has largely …

Political parties increasingly rely on self-regulation to promote ethical standards in office.
The adoption of ethics self-regulation and its ability to induce change is likely to be a …

We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals
included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly …

Voters across the world are often complicit in electing bad-quality legislators to political
office. This problem is particularly salient in India, where candidates accused of criminality …

While an extensive comparative politics literature focuses on the mechanisms that facilitate
the emergence and persistence of political dynasties, we know relatively little about voters' …

Does the passage of anticorruption reforms affect the types of people that want to serve in
government? This article evaluates the effects of a common tool to fight corruption—financial …

Why do voters shun some business tycoons yet elect others into power? As structural
conditions facilitate the entry of super-wealthy actors into politics, the differential electoral …

Providing an authoritative global overview of theoretical and empirical research in the field,
this Handbook explores the complex relationship between gender and corruption in …