1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910473055303321

Autore

Chauvet, Victor

Titolo

Manzoni, Stendhal, Hugo e altri saggi su classici e romantici / Victor Chauvet ; a cura di Carlo Cordié

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Catania, : Università, Biblioteca della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, 1958

Descrizione fisica

222 p. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Università di Catania, Biblioteca della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia

Disciplina

804

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

3/VII A 35

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960082903321

Autore

Pani Marco

Titolo

Hold Your Nose and Vote : : Why Do Some Democracies Tolerate Corruption? / / Marco Pani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612843037

9781462335596

1462335594

9781452758145

145275814X

9781451872309

1451872305

9781282843035

1282843036

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Political corruption

Democracy

Administrative Processes in Public Organizations

Budget planning and preparation

Budget Systems



Budget

Budgeting & financial management

Budgeting

Bureaucracy

Corporate crime

Corruption

Criminology

Economics

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

National Budget

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Political Economy

Political economy

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Tax incentives

Taxation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

White-collar crime

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Relations with Previous Studies; III. A Model of Public Expenditure with Corruption; A. How ministers respond to corruption: honest and corrupt citizens; B. The political response of non-elected citizens; C. The choice between honest and corrupt candidates; IV. Voting on Law Enforcement; A. Law enforcement and policy choice; B. Deciding on law enforcement; V. Conclusions; Appendix: Proofs of Propositions; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of resources between public and private expenditure, altering the policy preferences of elected and nonelected citizens in opposite directions. The result is a reduction in real public expenditure and, if the median voter's demand for public goods is sufficiently elastic, a tax reduction. In this case, some citizens can indirectly benefit from corruption. The paper shows that, under this condition, if the citizens anticipate a shift in policy preferences in favor of higher public expenditure, they may support institutional arrangements that favor corruption (such as a weak enforcement of the law) in order to alter future policy decisions in their favor. This result complements the findings of other studies that have attributed the persistence of corruption in a democracyto some failure on the part of



the voters or the electoral system. It also bears implications for developing effective anticorruption strategies and for redefining the role that can be played by the international community.