corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

entry re-regulation context. In contrast to other entry deterrence models, we are able to investigate how product market …

This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …