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Description:
This paper is an analytical attempt to isolate and differentiate the concepts of "redistributive politics" and "corruption". Such analytical distinction helps us in understanding how redistributive politics can adversely affect the quality of public investment in a poor region. We highlight the possibility that better quality of public investment can be associated with a higher degree of corruption but somewhat lower magnitude of "redistributive politics". We build up a political choice model where corruption and redistribution are treated as substitutes in the political strategy space. Our paper is possibly the first attempt to model the interaction corruption and redistributive politics in a poor developing economy