Corruption, Party Leaders, and Candidate Selection: Evidence from Italy

  1. How does the press pressure emphasizing the importance of corruption and malfeasance of legislators affect legislators’ renomination?

  2. How do ruling and opposition (or, alternatively, major and minor) parties decide to renominate legislators incriminated in corruption?

  3. What individual characteristics of legislators correlate with their engagement in wrongdoing?

‘Press 1 for Roads’: Improving Political Communication with New Technology

  1. How does access to information and communications technology, namely, Interactive Voice Response, affect citizens voting for (non)incumbent politicians on the individual and aggregate levels?

  2. How does access to information and communications technology, namely, Interactive Voice Response, influence politicians’ willingness to deliver public services in their constituencies?

  3. What type of requests from citizens – community vs. individual – do characterize applications within the IVR calls?