An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self‐fulfilling prophecy. Its
central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived …

Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and
democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries …

Do democratic elections help reduce corruption? Many reformers—both anti-corruption
advocates and democracy promoters—hope and believe the answer is yes. Does the …

Exploiting daily records documenting how an organization of high-level bureaucrats in
Argentina collected bribes and delivered them to party leaders from 2009 to 2015, I detect …

We analyze the non-contributory health insurance program (“green cards”) in Turkey with
RDD (Regression Discontinuity Design) and show that more citizens receive green cards in …

Building on past research, this paper develops a game theoretic model to study the
provision of local public goods under closed-and open-list proportional representation …

We develop a new framework to study legislative representation in list proportional
representation (PR) systems. Our model studies a legislator's incentives to balance the …

This paper examines how the adoption of the Australian ballot (AB), and ipso facto, the
transition from the nominal to effective secret vote, shaped the nature of party politics in …

This article examines the relationship between electoral volatility and political finance
regulation in Colombia. The author argues that recent political finance reforms in this country …

This issue continues with the journal's theme of sustaining and furthering research into how,
and why, institutional details affect things such as policy outcomes and individual welfare …