Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande

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Abstract: Increased 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].

Keywords: ethnic voting; corruption India; ethnic group; ethnicization; politician; North; parochial; minority; pro-majority; social homogeneity; party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
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