Recent Papers and Publications

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Forthcoming Articles

“Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1992.” (Rev. version, September 2007).
Originally prepared for presentation at the 2005 annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4. Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 52, no. 2 (2008). Co-authored with Lucio Picci.

“Some Puzzles of Political Corruption in Modern Advanced Democracies.” (December 2006).
Prepared for presentation at the 2005 annual meetings of the Japan Political Science Association, Tokyo, October 1 and for a meeting on political accountability, Waseda University, September 30, 2005. Forthcoming in a volume edited by Hideko Magara on political accountability (in Japanese).

Recently Published Articles

“Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption,” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 37 (January 2007), pp. 115-137. Co-authored with Eric C.C. Chang.

“Corruption and the Management of Public Works in Italy,” in The Handbook of Economic Corruption, ed. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Williston, VT: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2006), pp. 457-483. Co-authored with Lucio Picci.

“Centralization of Bargaining and Wage Inequality: A Correction of Wallerstein,” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 50 (January 2006), pp. 208-13. Co-authored with John B. Londregan.

“Single Country Studies: What Can We Learn?” Italian Politics and Society, no. 60 (spring 2005), pp. 5-8.

“Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data,” Economics & Politics, vol. 17 (March 2005), pp. 37-75. Co-authored with Lucio Picci.

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Replications of Golden-Picci measure in other countries

“International Economic Sources of Regime Change: How European Economic Integration Undermined Italy’s Postwar Party System,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 37 (December 2004), pp. 1238-74.

Dataset for this study

“Electoral Connections: The Effects of the Personal Vote on Political Patronage, Bureaucracy and Legislation in Postwar Italy,” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 33 (April 2003), pp. 189-212.

“Competitive Corruption: Factional Conflict and Political Malfeasance in Postwar Italian Christian Democracy,” World Politics, vol. 53 (July 2001), pp. 588-622. Co-authored with Eric C.C. Chang.

Unpublished Papers

“Domestic and International Causes for the Rise of Pay Inequality: Post-Industrialism, Globalization and Labor Market Institutions.” (Rev. version, August 2007).
Originally prepared for presentation at a meeting of the Working Group on Wealth and Power in the Post-Industrial Age, Yale University, February 24, 2006. Co-authored with Michael Wallerstein.

“The Electoral Consequences of Political Corruption.” (Rev. version, September 2007.)

Co-authored with Eric C.C. Chang and Seth J. Hill.

“Does Globalization Reduce Corruption? Some Political Consequences of Economic Integration.” (October 2002)

Updated November 20, 2007