development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

indicator for prosecutorial independence based on data from the World Justice Project to answer these questions. We find that … of prosecutorial corruption. For police officers, we find that prosecutorial independence is not decisive, but … prosecutorial corruption matters for whether suspected misconduct is likely to be prosecuted. …

In many modern nation states, both rich and poor, traditional law to this day plays an important role. Given the almost … universal prevalence of traditional law, it is surprising how little we know about it. This is the first study that tries to … take stock of traditional law from a cross-country perspective. We are also interested in the compatibility of traditional …

and the rule of law, political rights, civil rights, and basic human rights. The database covers 168 countries over the …

considered as conducive to judicial independence. We try to resolve this puzzle based on political economy explanations and …

new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly … into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new light on the relationship between the rule of law and the political … system of a country. Third, because political systems hardly predetermine the rule of law level of a country, we investigate …