From 1870 to 1920, when corruption appears to have declined significantly within the United States, the press became … of the informative press was one of the reasons why the corruption of the Gilded Age was sharply reduced during the …

was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt … developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … corruption from 1870 to 1920, particularly from the late-1870s to the mid-1880s and again in the 1910s. At its peak in the 1870s …

century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today's most corrupt developing nations, as … municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and … Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption …

was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt … developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … corruption from 1870 to 1920, particularly from the late-1870s to the mid-1880s and again in the 1910s. At its peak in the 1870s …

charged language in the half century after 1870.From 1870 to 1920, when corruption appears to have declined significantly … seems a reasonable hypothesis that the rise of the informative press was one of the reasons why the corruption of the Gilded …