measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth - just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … parties were responsible for the construction of the shoddy buildings, and for the corruption and mismanagement related to …

good reasons why the extent of bias may vary with child age. Fixed effect estimation is undermined by measurement error and …

estimation may still be consistent, while OLS will be inconsistent. We provide simulation as well as empirical evidence for this … evidence that non‐response is not ignorable for the differences-in-differences estimation. …

sensitivity shown by the electorate to real and perceived corruption implies that corruption problem will be tractable in Turkey …, and can be reduced through increased transparency and democratization. -- Turkey ; earthquake ; corruption ; election …The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …