The conventional academic wisdom is that prosecutor elections are little more than empty
exercises. Using a new, national survey of local prosecutor elections-the first of its kind-this …

Contemporary advances in the field of political economy, particularly those concerning the
subject of delegated authority, can provide a unifying framework for analyzing the behavior …

The United States is the only country in the world where voters elect prosecutors. But the
American prosecutor did not start as an elected official. After the Revolutionary War, most …

We use panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant US Attorneys and
relative public sector wages, and careful attention to the consequences of modeling …

I investigate the long-run relationship between corruption and innovative activity using
annual data from 48 contiguous US states between 1977 and 2006. Using US data allows …

Prosecutors as Judges Page 1 Prosecutors as Judges Erik Luna* Marianne Wade** Table
of Contents 1. Introduction............................ *******"*,*,*,"**'""'*** 1414 11. Prosecutorial …

Despite infrastructure's importance to the US economy, evidence on its cost trajectory over
time is sparse. We document real spending per new mile over the history of the Interstate …

We examine whether elections of public prosecutors influence the mix of cases taken to trial
versus plea bargained. A theoretical model is constructed wherein voters use outcomes of …

PROSECUTORS AND MASS INCARCERATION Page 1 PROSECUTORS AND MASS
INCARCERATION SHIMA BARADARAN BAUGHMAN* & MEGAN S. WRIGHTt It has long been …

Prosecutors under common‐law tradition exercise a significant amount of discretion in the
criminal justice system. In the U nited S tates, the dominant form of accountability is that …