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Empirical research on the determinants of corruption has made substantial progress over the last decade. To date, the … deals both with the determinants of corruption within the judiciary and with the consequences of institutional structures of … the judiciary for corruption at large. It is shown that both the factual independence of the judiciary as well as that of …
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Das Thema Korruption erlangt seit einigen Jahren zunehmend die Aufmerksamkeit nationaler und internationaler … Transformationslaendern sind sowie die Bedeutung unzureichender Institutionen fuer die Korruption in der Marktwirtschaft werden hier …
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Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of … access. Every nation solves problems of access, quality, and equity differently. Thus, although prosecuting corruption in … paper addresses the question: How is corruption in higher education understood and defined in legal cases, what particular …
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districts. Corruption and other forms of misconduct may be modeled in large educational organizations with strong vertical and … automata to study corruption in large educational organizations, including school districts and state university systems. The …
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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 …
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Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal … growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous … systematic research on education corruption is virtually nonexistent. This paper considers corruption in higher education as …
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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According to Acton: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". We study the implications of Acton's dictum in models where citizens vote (for three parties) and governments then form in a series of elections. In each election, parties have fixed tastes for graft, which affect...
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and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …
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This paper aims at finding and analyzing the key determinants of Egypt’s fiscal deficits for the period of 1985-2013. It hypothesizes that the political and institutional factors are more important than macroeconomic variables to explain the fiscal deficits of the country in question. In...
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