Henderson, J. Vernon; Kuncoro, Ari - In: Journal of Development Economics 94 (2011) 2, pp. 164-180
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. This paper examines whether corruption is affected by local democratization and by the party composition of local assemblies. Democratization occurred in 1999 and decentralization in 2001. We...