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A Report on "Corruption and Co-optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia"

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  • Denly, Michael
  • Helms, Benjamin

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We re-analyze Szakonyi (2025), one of the most innovative corruption studies in recent years. Using data from Russia, Szakonyi (2025) estimates the effect of a political regime having compromising information (kompromat) over its politicians on legislative behavior, lobbying, and re-election. We are able to computationally reproduce the author's results, but we had to make changes to the data cleaning script for it to run properly. While one of our robustness tests weakens the author's results, most of our additional tests strengthen or confirm Szakonyi's (2025) original findings. Finally, we provide a discussion of estimands and generalizability that does not invalidate Szakonyi's (2025) findings. Overall, Szakonyi (2025) deserves wide readership and praise for its innovative methods of studying corruption in an authoritarian regime.

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  • Denly, Michael & Helms, Benjamin, 2025. "A Report on "Corruption and Co-optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia"," I4R Discussion Paper Series 260, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:260
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption

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