WORK IN PROGRESS

Anti-Defamation Law and Political Corruption

Coalition Government and Voters' Influence

Jumping on the Bandwagon.The Promise of Pork-Barrel Politics and the Formation of Consensus for Political Regime Switches. (September 2008)

(Preliminary Essay)

When political regime switches happen, the public opinion seems to widely support the switch. This consensus appears to be hidden or non- existing until the regime switch happens. This paper presents a possible explanation of this puzzle based on the (implicit) promise of the alterna- tive regime to reward its own supporters at the moment of the switch. Some normative conclusions are presented.