Who Goes to Jail and Who Stays in Office? Elite Competition and Criminal Investigation of Mayors in Russia

• In Event: The Politics of Prosecutors in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

What explains when are politicians prosecuted and when are they kept in office? Studying Russian prosecutorial patters, the authors show the relevante of formal and informal political networks in explaining this variation.

Authors

• Evgenia Olimpieva, University of Chicago

• Masatomo Torikai, Keio University