Recent Papers and Publications

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Forthcoming Articles

“Sources of Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes.” (Rev. version, February 2009.)  Co-authored with Eric C.C. Chang . Forthcoming, Social Sciences Quarterly.

“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

“Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1992.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 52, no. 2 (2008).Co-authored with Lucio Picci.

 

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“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.

 

 

  • Replications of Golden-Picci measure by others for 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Unpublished Papers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.

“Legislative Malfeasance and Political Accountability.” (Rev. version, December 2008.) Co-authored with Eric C.C. Chang and Seth J. Hill.

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



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