Endogenous political competition and political accountability

Miltiadis Makris

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 104, issue 3, pages 151-153

Abstract: We contribute to the debate over the effectiveness of elections in motivating incumbents to perform well. We show that with endogenous political competition the effectiveness of democracy in disciplining officials can be largely diminished.

Keywords: Political; competition; Retrospective; voting; Citizen-candidate; Rent-seeking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V84 ... ea01b814a8ad6efe0f00
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:104:y:2009:i:3:p:151-153

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is edited by E. Maskin

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Series data maintained by Heidi Boesdal ().