Instability and the incentives for corruption

Economics and Politics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-92

  Campante, Filipe R ^a   Chor, Davin ^b   Do, Quoc Anh ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INCENTIVE; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; POLITICAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 61549084049     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: 14680343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2008.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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