Electoral Proximity and the Political Involvement of Bureaucrats: A Natural Experiment in Argentina, 1904
In this paper, I use a slightly modified version of the Becker–Stigler model of corrupt behavior to explain bureaucratic political involvement. Since bureaucrats prefer higher rewards and not to support losing candidates, we expect them to become politically involved near elections – when reward...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Politics in Latin America |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/940 |