Politicians' outside earnings and electoral competition

Public Choice

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 379-394

  Becker, Johannes ^a   Peichl, Andreas ^b   Rincke, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outside earnings; Political competition; Political rents

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350022540     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9426-y     Document Type: Article

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