Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the case when we use the variation induced by the exogenous location of a state’s centroid to instrument for the concentration of population around the capital city...

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Main Authors: CAMPANTE, Filipe R., DO, Quoc-Anh
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
Corruption
Accountability
Population Concentration
Capital Cities
US State Politics
Media
Turnout
Campaign Contributions
Public Good Provision.
Political Economy
Public Economics
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1387
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2386/viewcontent/21_2012_IsolatedCapitalCitiesAccountabilityandCorruptionEvidencefromUSStates.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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