Abstract
How do electoral institutions affect the incidence of political corruption? In contrast to previous research, this paper suggests that the most important institutional parameter for reducing political graft is its ballot structure, and in particular whether it permits citizens to cast intra-party candidate votes which affect the organizational allocation of legislative seats. Sections 2–5 present a game theoretic model from which this core hypothesis emerges. I then test the prediction with cross-national data on electoral institutions and political corruption. Taken together, the paper’s results provide a strong counter-argument to the notion that majoritarian institutions generate better governance than their proportional representation counterparts.
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