How to Subvert Democracy: Montesions in Peru
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2004Open access
John McMillan, Pablo Zoido
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Which of the democratic checks and balances - opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press - is the most forceful? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically undermined them all with bribes. We quantify the checks using the bribe prices.
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