Electoral Rules (Persson at al.)

Electoral Rules and corruption by Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini and Francesco Trebbi published by NBER. “This paper has presented new results on how electoral rules affect corruption. Our empirical results are consistent with theoretical models suggesting that voting on party lists (the career-concern effect) or in relatively small electoral districts (the barriers-to-entry effect) reduce the effectiveness with which voters can exploit the ballot to deter corruption.”