We explore the role played by libel laws in selecting the information delivered by mass media to voters. The focus is on whether such laws can reduce political corruption and increase voters’ welfare. By endogenizing the response of the voters to information from the media, we clarify under which circumstances regulation reduces or increases corruption. The analysis shows that libel laws can re...

Competitive political parties and election campaigns are central to the health of democracies. Parties and campaigns require significant resources to be effective. India has developed complex election expenditure, political party funding, and reporting and disclosure laws. We suggest that these laws may have perverse impacts on the electoral system: they tend to drive campaign expenditure under...

Article history: Received 21 June 2009 Received in revised form 6 April 2010 Accepted 27 June 2010 Available online 29 July 2010 Rational choice models predict that political competition and political participation have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate these theories using data from a panel of 18 Latin American countries during the 20th century. Our research builds evi...

criminal procedure bill resolve all defects and vagueness’s of current law about people benefiting the right to liberty and security of person and by complete omission of chances ending in compulsory detention and also omission of all compulsory detentions in all groundwork except for laws applying to armed forces, emphasized the necessity of justification of temporary detention and also reduct...