about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public good provision …, size of government, and political freedom. We find that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically … heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government …

This paper presents two propositions about corruption. First, the structure of government institutions and the … political process are a very important determinant of the level of corruption. In particular, weak governments which do not … control their agencies would lead to ultra-high corruption levels. Second, the illegality of corruption and the need for …

This paper presents two propositions about corruption. First, the structure of government institutions and the … political process are a very important determinant of the level of corruption. In particular, weak governments which do not … control their agencies would lead to ultra-high corruption levels. Second, the illegality of corruption and the need for …