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Does Rapid Liberalization Increase Corruption?
Tavares, Samia - EconWPA - 2005
Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of …—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides no guidance as to the direction of causality—on the one hand, reforms make … politicians accountable to voters, as well as introduce more competition, which should decrease corruption. On the other hand, the …
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Fiscal Austerity and Public Servant Quality
Haque, Nadeem Ul; Montiel, Peter; Sheppard, Stephen - EconWPA - 1997
In this paper we use a simple model to analyze the forces which determine the size of the public sector and the quality of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy which maximizes a social welfare function $U(s,Y)$ which...
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Bureaucratic Corruption and Mass Media
Suphachalasai, Suphachol - EconWPA - 2005
corruption. We develop a bureaucratic model of corruption with mass media. A representative profit maximizing media firm seeks … for corruption news to be printed and sold. Channels through which competition in media industry and press freedom affect … equilibrium corruption in a bureaucracy are modeled. Different degrees of media freedom and competition affect production and …
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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES
SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004
Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity
Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we investigate how “civil service” personnel management interacts with bureaucratic discretion to create high capacity, expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and...
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Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making
Boehmke, Frederick J.; Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005
Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper...
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An Enabling Mechanism for the Creation, Adjustment, and Dissolution of States and Governmental Units
Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - EconWPA - 2004
The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each resident as in a direct democracy. Rather than focusing on a narrow model with restrictive and specialized assumptions, and subsequent solutions, as has been...
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You Get What You Vote For: Electoral Determinants of Economic Freedom
Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002
While several cross-sectional studies (La Porta et. al. 2002, Norton 2002) examine institutional and cultural determinants of economic freedom, changes in economic freedom remain unexamined. I construct a measure of median voter preferences and find changes in voter preferences for economic...
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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004
illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption and economic growth in Nigeria. We proposed anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076578