Incentive contracts for politicians: a viable supplement to democracies?

When reelection is uncertain, the election mechanism may provide insufficient incentives to politicians to implement the socially desirable policy. In this paper, we show that incentive contracts which the candidates offer themselves during the campaign can help to alleviate the problem even if the...

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1. Verfasser: Liessem, Verena (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Book/Monograph Arbeitspapier
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [S.l.] SSRN 2003
DOI:10.2139/ssrn.443922
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei: https://ssrn.com/abstract=443922
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