Development and Decay: Political Organization, Economic Conditions, and Municipal Corruption in Puerto Rico, 1952-2015
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Keywords
corruption; clientelist politics; anti-corruption audits; accountability; political polarization; divided societies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2021-02-01 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-HIS-2021-02-01 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2021-02-01 (Positive Political Economics)
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