corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also have anti-speculator sentiment, which might affect their professional … that judges would have an anti-speculator bias. However, in an actual behavioral study, 185 judges did not exhibit such … that a communication problem exists between lawyers and non-lawyers (i.e. between judges and the general public), we find …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this …

-sourced constitution bill from 2009 to 2014, and also offers an explanation as to why the bill failed to be passed by Parliament … influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn't like the result, they would … well founded or not (and they are not), are irrelevant because Parliament held a national referendum on 20 October 2012 in …

effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting elected to parliament increases annual earnings initially by about €20 …