Vetting for Virtue: Democracy’s Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office
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Keywords
political selection; criminal backgrounds; voter behaviour; political parties;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2024-11-18 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-LAW-2024-11-18 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2024-11-18 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-POL-2024-11-18 (Positive Political Economics)
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