Partisan Bias in Corruption Prosecutions

NYU's Sandy Gordon just posted a nifty paper on SSRN.  Assessing Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions uses data on (surprise!) public corruption prosecutions during the Clinton and Bush (43) administrations to examine empirically a model where (a la Becker) prosecutors have a taste for prosecuting their political opponents.  I won't spoil the punch line(s) for ELSBlog readers, but suffice it to say that Sandy's findings are the sort of thing that have been known to land people on Colbert.