Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or influence politi...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95916 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491 |