Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
Published By: BREAD on eSS | Published Date: July, 19 , 2007Increased 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). [BREAD WP No. 152].
Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande | Posted on: Jul 19, 2007 | Views(2931) | Download (1109)