As moral hazard problems in political decision making abound, the quality of government decisions does not only depend on politicians’ competence, but also on their motivation. This paper develops a three-party model of electoral competition in which politicians differ in competence, in policy preferences, and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to t...

Research Summary Organizational stigma has been commonly associated with a number of negative economic externalities in prior literature, but the mechanism by which this occurs and extent consequences have received little attention. We address these gaps theorizing that stigmatizing labels damage legitimacy target highlighting deviation from expectations relevant audiences. also argue content f...

A rare collection of personality assessments from 103 Italian politicians revealed predictable patterns of contrasts and similarities with personality dimensions from a large normative sample (N = 4,578). Three modal personality characteristics distinguished politicians, with their significantly higher levels of Energy, Agreeableness, and Social Desirability, from the general public. Comparabil...

This paper examines Twitter networks of South Korean politicians. We have constructed the Following-follower and the Mention network between politicians and analyzed their relationship through various statistical tests and network analysis. Unlike other politician‟s network such as bill cosponsorship and hyperlink network, the Twitter politician network lies in the embeddedness context, implyin...

A report on the 5th Internet, Law and Politics conference hosted by the UOC in July 2009. The author, who attended the conference as rapporteur and wrote a ‘live blog’ during the two-day event, reviews some of the contributions, reflects on the theme of social networking sites (‘pro or con?’) and explores the different approaches of the disciplines of law and of political science, suggesting th...

Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private sector). In this paper, we propose a dynamic equilibrium model of the careers of politicians in an environme...