Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism
Despite having adopted the political institutions of established democracies, democratizing countries display a systematically different pattern of fiscal outcomes. This article attributes these differences to the low credibility of electoral promises in new democracies. We study a model of electora...
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Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4611 |