Paying Politicians: Theory and Evidence

By T. Besley. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Political Careers or Career Politicians (2008, background): “Only incumbent politicians with political skills p ∈ [(1 + p0) /2,min {p00, 1}] are successful in their reelection bid, where p00 = s+ r v > 1 + p0 2 , (4)”
Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis (2011, unknown): “The question of whether a higher pay results in a political class of higher abilities has recently attracted increasing interest – for theoretical analyses on the topic, see Besley (2004), Caselli and Morelli (2004), Messner and Polborn (2004), Poutvaara and Takalo (2007) and Matozzi and Merlo (2008”
Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India (2005, unknown): “Column (4) considers the literacy rate as a proxy for information flows in a village.”
Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection (2013, unknown): “Yet, various models in political economics build on the efficiencywage intuitions to predict that a higher salary should increase the average quality of politicians (e.g., see Caselli and Morelli, 2004; Besley, 2004).”
Competing on Good Politicians (2009, background): “Besley, Persson, and Sturm (n.d.) use different measures of the degree of political competition in U.S. local elections, and find evidence of a positive effect of competition on growth-enhancing policies and, ultimately, on economic growth. Stromberg (2008) analyzes how U.S. presidential candidates ”
Political rents in a non-corrupt democracy (2009, unknown): “22 For a discussion of the e¤ect of pay on politicians, see Besley (2004).”