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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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Based on data from the EU Justice Scoreboard, we identify a puzzle: National levels of judicial independence (as perceived by the citizens of EU member states) are negatively associated with the presence of formal legislation usually considered as conducive to judicial independence. We try to...
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new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly … into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new light on the relationship between the rule of law and the political … system of a country. Third, because political systems hardly predetermine the rule of law level of a country, we investigate …
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This contribution is one of the lead articles to the forthcoming Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. It discusses the main contributions from the New Institutional Economics to transformation research but also identifies a number of research gaps
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