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Priks, Mikael - 2021

Recent empirical work shows that judicial dependence can explain high levels of corruption. This paper examines how the … dependence of judiciaries influences corruption at different levels of the government in a model where the central government … authority and accept bribes from stealing low-level officials, it reduces corruption at the higher level of government but …

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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with “no strings attached,” a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional...

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Corruption in Russia - Historic Legacy and Systemic Nature

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018

towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty …

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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

Cruzatti C., John - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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From Natural Resources to Human Rights

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

Per Magnus Wijkman was the first foreign observer to urge Iceland in print to regulate its fisheries by price. This was in 1975, nine years before the Icelandic fishing quota system came into effect, a system judged discriminatory and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Iceland in 1998 (but...

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