Does Economics Make Politicians Corrupt? Empirical Evidence from the <scp>U</scp>nited <scp>S</scp>tates <scp>C</scp>ongress

Ruske, René

doi:10.1111/kykl.12082

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Does Economics Make Politicians Corrupt? Empirical Evidence from the United States Congress

Published in Kyklos • Apr 6, 2015

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René Ruske

Abstract

Summary The present article analyzes the differences between economists and non‐economists with respect to observed corruption behavior used as a proxy for selfishness. For this purpose, I analyzed real world data of relating to the 109 th –111 th US C ongress between 2005 and 2009, including 695 re...

Subject

Proxy (statistics)

Selfishness

Economics

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