correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

, development and accountability with program outcomes. Our findings have important implications for both the design and …

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public … determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments, constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid …

of moral ideal, we show that the impact of transparency is conditional on the length of the transfer chain and on the … intermediary will embezzle less. Senders react positively to a reduction of the length of the chain but negatively to transparency. …

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil …’s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the … effects of the disclosure of local government corruption practices upon the re-election success of incumbent mayors. Comparing …