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When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States
Schuster, Christian - 2016
Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica
Gingerich, Daniel W.; Oliveros, Virgina; Corbacho, Ana; … - 2015
An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314184
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Curbing grand corruption in the contracting out of public services lessons from a pilot study of the school meals program in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178220
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Frenando la gran corrupción en la contratación de servicios públicos: Lecciones de un estudio piloto del Programa de Alimentación Escolar en Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178221
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Grand corruption in the contracting out of public services: Lessons from a pilot study in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604839
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When can lotteries improve public procurement processes?
Estache, Antonio; Foucart, Renaud; Serebrisky, Tomás - 2022
corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518227
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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?
Scartascini, Carlos; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009
This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
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Unraveling the paradox of anticorruption messaging: Experimental evidence from a tax administration reform
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ardanaz, Martin; Cruces, Guillermo; … - 2024
Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …
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Complements or substitutes? Preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Volpe Martincus, Christian; … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and bilateral preferential tariffs at the 4-digit ISIC level for 11 Latin American countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314060
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State Capacity and the Quality of Policies: Revisiting the Relationship between Openness and the Size of Government
Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014
The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...
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