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"Voting Corrupt Politicians Out of Office? Evidence from an Experiment in Paraguay"--Seminar with Karine Van Der Straeten
Co-Authors: Rumilda Cañete, Josepa Miquel-Florensa (TSE & IAST), Stéphane Straub (TSE & IAST). “This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that giving voters more power – both formally through the use of more ‘open’ electoral systems, and informally through easier access to information about politicians’ wrongdoings – will necessarily result in them voting corrupt politicians out of office. First, focusing on a comparison between closed-list and open-list proportional representation systems, we show theoretically that opening the lists is likely to generate a large shift of vote shares in favor of the traditional, most corrupt parties. Second, we design a survey experiment to test these predictions in Paraguay, and find strong supporting evidence. Last, we do not find in our context that the lack of information about politicians’ wrongdoings is a major obstacle preventing voters to vote out corrupt politicians; if anything, we find that under the more open system, supporters of the incumbent party actually exhibit a ‘preference’ for corrupt politicians.”
Date:
27 February 2019, 15:30
Venue:
Nuffield College
Speaker:
Karine Van Der Straeten (Tolouse School of Economics)
Organising department:
Nuffield College
Part of:
CESS/Nuffield Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/cess-event/karine-van-der-straeten-toulouse-school-of-economics/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Michaela Coplen
