Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
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- Abhijit Banerjee & Rohini Pande, 2007. "Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption," Working Papers id:1079, eSocialSciences.
- Rohini Pande, 2007. "Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption," CID Working Papers 147, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
- Banerjee, Abhijit V. & Pande, Rohini, 2007. "Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption," Working Paper Series rwp07-031, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Corruption; Ethnic Voting; India;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- P16 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Political Economy of Capitalism
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2007-07-13 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CWA-2007-07-13 (Central & Western Asia)
- NEP-DEV-2007-07-13 (Development)
- NEP-PBE-2007-07-13 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2007-07-13 (Positive Political Economics)
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