Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
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- Afridi, Farzana & Dhillon, Amrita & Solan, Eilon, 2016. "Exposing corruption: Can electoral competition discipline politicians?," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 311, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
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Keywords
audit; electoral competition; social accountability; corruption;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2016-12-11 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DEV-2016-12-11 (Development)
- NEP-POL-2016-12-11 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2016-12-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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