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With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime

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  • Pasquale Accardo
  • Giuseppe De Feo
  • Giacomo De Luca

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Higher electoral competition may reinforce the position of politically active criminal organizations, which can endorse politicians in exchange for favors. This paper formalizes this intuition and test it on Italian electoral data, using the 1991 electoral reform as an exogenous source of variation in electoral competition in one of the two branches of the Parliament. Our triple-difference estimates suggest that after the reform mafia-prone areas reported higher vote shares awarded to the party traditionally supported by criminal organizations only for the branch affected by the reform, and a larger dispersion of votes across candidates of the same party.

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  • Pasquale Accardo & Giuseppe De Feo & Giacomo De Luca, 2023. "With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime," Working Papers 202307, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:liv:livedp:202307
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    Political competition; Organized crime;

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