Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data
Standard cross-national measures of corruption are assembled through surveys. We propose a novel alternative objective measure that consists of the difference between a measure of the physical…
Legislative Malfeasance and Political Accountability
- Eric C. C. Chang, M. Golden, Seth J. Hill
- Political Science
- 1 April 2010
Utilizing a unique data set from the Italian Ministry of Justice reporting the transmission to the Chamber of Deputies of more than the thousand requests for the removal of parliamentary immunity…
Distributive Politics Around the World
We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic…
Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994
This paper analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure expenditures by the Italian government to the country’s 92 provinces between 1953 and 1994. Extending implications…
Electoral Connections: The Effects of the Personal Vote on Political Patronage, Bureaucracy and Legislation in Postwar Italy
- M. Golden
- Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science
- 17 March 2003
This article examines the relationship between the legislature and the public administration in postwar Italy (understood as the period from about 1948 through 1994). Italian public administration is…
Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption
- Eric C. C. Chang, M. Golden
- Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science
- 1 July 2004
The relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic nations is analysed in this article. Whereas previous studies have shown that closed-list…
Incumbents and Criminals in the Indian National Legislature
- Toke S. Aidt, M. Golden, Devesh Tiwari
- Political Science
- 18 September 2011
Utilizing data on criminal charges lodged against candidates to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of representatives, we study the conditions that resulted in approximately…
Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study
- M. Golden, P. Lange, M. Wallerstein
- Engineering
- 2002
An electronic transmission controller for determining the shift points of a powered vehicle with a plurality of forward and reverse gears and a neutral gear shift position wherein a throttle setting…
The Dynamics of Trade Unionism and National Economic Performance
- M. Golden
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 June 1993
I test two theories of the political processes of trade unions. The first argues that wage moderation depends on a centralized labor movement. The second contends that, institutional conditions…
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