Economic and political literature widely studied the effects of electoral system on corruption. But very little … proportionality degree of the electoral system impacts political corruption directly and in a conditional way: through the degree of … that both the direct and the indirect effect matter in explaining corruption. As the electoral system becomes more …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption’s predominantly negative effects have arisen to …’s aim to provide a reassessment and a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and its …

Most of the studies which have investigated the link between corruption and poverty may draw conclusions on causality … between corruption and poverty. It uses dynamic panel system GMM estimators, focuses on capability poverty using human poverty … corruption and poverty go together, with bidirectional causality. …

It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

an electoral system and corruption. This allows us to properly consider mixed electoral systems alongside the two … proportional system is not beneficial in fighting corruption because it weakens the monitoring power of opponents (their … beneficial only up to certain proportionality degrees, after which the corresponding level of corruption begins to grow …

Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a … findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial. …