auditor term length and term limits on government performance at the US State level. While the empirical results for the …

Public Auditors are fundamental institutions to supervise government agents. Without accurate information principals …

openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social …

observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …

Whether democracy or capitalism should have normative priority depends on the philosophi- cal point of view but also …

Whether democracy or capitalism should have normative priority depends on the philosophi- cal point of view but also …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

private investment, this tends to be offset by a corresponding reduction in government investment. Fiscal consolidations …

government". To restrain government manipulation one has to turn to Constitutional Economics and increase the possibilities for …