Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19127 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1663
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining access to politicians and, thereby, to become potential candidates for nominations. Such rent-seeking results in excessive network formation. Political parties may reduce wasteful network formation, thanks to their ability to enter into exclusive membership contracts. This holds even though anticorruption laws also bind political parties.
Subjects: 
political parties
two-sided platforms
rent-seeking
network formation
JEL: 
L14
D85
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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