dc.contributor.author | Banerjee, Abhijit | |
dc.contributor.author | Pande, Rohini | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-17T16:58:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Rohini Pande. “Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption.” CID Working Paper Series 2007.147, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 2007. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42482350 | * |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite true for the minority party. The effect increases with greater numerical dominance of the majority (and so social homogeneity). Empirical evidence from a survey on politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Center for International Development at Harvard University | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications | en_US |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption | en_US |
dc.type | Research Paper or Report | en_US |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | CID Working Paper Series | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-17T16:58:13Z | |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Pande, Rohini | |