Mind and Machine: Rooting Out Corrupt Politicians

• In Event: Attitudes Toward Corruption and Violence

Brief Overview

We test how readily available information about candidates allows voters to distinguish corrupt and non-corrupt politicians, using a novel experimental design that incorporates a unique dataset on Colombian politicians and machine learning.

Authors

• Thomas Samuel Robinson, Durham University

• Nelson Alejandro Ruiz, University of Oxford

• Ezequiel Alejo Gonzalez Ocantos