The Establishment of an Anti-Corruption Agency: An Electoral Incentive to Enact a Self-Restraint Reform

• In Event: Frontiers in the Study of Corruption

Brief Overview

Why do incumbents enact reforms to restrain themselves? In this article, I contribute to the literature on self-restraint reforms by focusing on electoral incentives of incumbents to establish an anti-corruption agency.

Author

• Jonghoon Lee, Texas A & M University