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The Impact of Government Size on Corruption: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024
We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …
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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009
In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure programs. Starting from the economic...
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Population Size and the Size of Government
Krieger, Tim - 2019
We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly specified and fail to consider the influence of cross-sectional...
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