Corruption and re-election: how much can politicians steal before getting punished?

Vuković, Vuk

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2019.09.002

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“…Rundquist, Strom, and Peters (1977) have argued that voters were willing to condone corruption if the accused candidate had a strong record on other dimensions. Specifically, corruption could be overlooked when a politician had similar ideological views or was able to provide valuable goods (Winters and Weitz-Shapiro 2013), though this relationship may cease to work on higher levels of corruption (Vuković 2020). Several studies have indeed found that corrupt candidates faced fewer electoral consequences among co-partisans either because the latter do not believe the accusations or choose to ignore them (Eggers 2014;Franchino and Zucchini 2015), a direct extrapolation of the literature on the partisan bias in political perceptions (Bartels 2002).…”

Section: Corruption War Veterans and Voter Preferencesmentioning

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Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe

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Glaurdić

2021

East European Politics

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Do voters in postwar societies punish corrupt politicians? Or are their electoral preferences distorted by their own or the candidates' war pasts? We answer these questions by analysing the results of an experiment embedded in a survey of over seven thousand respondents from the countries of Southeast Europe that experienced armed conflict since the 1990s. Our findings show that voters in this region punish corruption harshly, yet are more likely to ignore it for politicians with a military service record. This tendency is, however, conditioned by voters' partisanship and sense of war grievance.

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Section: Corruption War Veterans and Voter Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe

Lesschaeve

Glaurdić

2021

East European Politics

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“…(11) To account for the facts that our research setting is in Croatia which has been characterized as a country where politicians use public procurement contracts to reward their cronies (Vuković, 2020), as well as that public funds can legitimately be used to provide firms with cushions in difficult times (Srhoj et al, 2020;Stojčić et al, 2020) we match on lagged dummy variables for whether the firm received a public procurement contract from the state or a state-owned enterprise in each of the past three years as well as the share of value received from the government in its total revenue in the most recent year before PBS.…”

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The Impact of Delay: Evidence from Formal Out-of-Court Restructuring

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Bankruptcy restructuring procedures are used in most legal systems to decide the fate of businesses facing financial hardship. We study how bargaining failures in such procedures impact the economic performance of participating firms in the context of Croatia, which introduced a "pre-bankruptcy settlement" (PBS) process in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 -2009. Local institutions left over from the communist era provide annual financial statements for both sides of more than 180,000 debtor-creditor pairs, enabling us to address selection into failed negotiations by matching a rich set of creditor and debtor characteristics. Failures to settle at the PBS stage due to idiosyncratic bargaining problems, which effectively delays entry into the standard bankruptcy procedure, leads to a lower rate of survival among debtors as well as reduced employment, revenue, and profits. We also track how bargaining failures diffuse through the network of creditors, finding a significant negative effect on small creditors, but not others. Our results highlight the impact of delay and the importance of structuring bankruptcy procedures to rapidly resolve uncertainty about firms' future prospects.

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“…Deficiencies in personnel training are the result of training specialists without taking into account competencies in the field of organizing personnel work to combat corruption [15]; shortcomings in retraining, untimely passing of advanced training, as well as frequent changes in legislation.…”

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Data and factors analysis of anti-corruption environment components of Russian public authorities

Astafurova

Golomanchuk

2021

SHS Web Conf.

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The paper is devoted to the examination of functional features of anti-corruption activities in Russian public government bodies and authorities using the cognitive modeling method . Currently, a contradictory situation is observed in corruption related assessment practice. At present, the leadership of public authorities reports on a decrease in acts of corruption whereas the statistics testify rather to the persistence of the previous level of corruption offenses than to the decline. Employees are concerned about the increasing requirements related to compliance with anti-corruption restrictions, as well as income, expenses and property obligations reporting. Citizens continue to express distrust in government bodies and state apparatus as a whole. These contradictions could be resolved if the interests of both employees of state bodies and citizens of the country are taken into account. It is assumed that when assessing anti-corruption environment effectiveness, it is advisable to take into account not only the risks of citizens, but also the risks of public officials and state authority’s employees. We applied cognitive modeling as it is difficult to formalize most stages of government bodies` activities, whereas we need to take into account many factors and conflicting goals that have complex weakly structured relationships. Fishbone Diagram or Cause-and-Effect-Diagram and the cognitive map were basic initial stage of cognitive modeling which allowed conducting the analysis of external and internal factors influence on the anti-corruption environment development in government bodies. The authors of the paper have shown benefits of expediency transferring of some personnel department functions into digital format.

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Corruption and re-election: how much can politicians steal before getting punished?

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe

Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe

The Impact of Delay: Evidence from Formal Out-of-Court Restructuring

Data and factors analysis of anti-corruption environment components of Russian public authorities

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