Throughout human history, polities have found it necessary to devote resources towards maintaining security from other polities or to prosecute a war against them. This paper explores the evolution of the war economy, as well as the circumstances which mandated and instruments which allowed the...

We consider a game between a principal, an agent, and a monitor in which the principal would like to rely on messages by the monitor to target intervention against a misbehaving agent. The difficulty is that the agent can credibly threaten to retaliate against likely whistleblowers in the event...

We investigate whether corruption “greases the wheels” of bureaucracies and enhances economic performance. Specifically, we examine the interaction effect of corruption and regulation on the economic performance of manufacturing industries in India. Our estimation results show that the...

Die Regelungen des Hochschulfreiheitsgesetzes zu Hochschulräten in Nordrhein-Westfalen werden erläutert und analysiert. Entgegen dem Namen des Gesetzes gewinnt der Staat durch die Hochschulräte eher an Einfluss hinsichtlich seiner Hochschulen. Insgesamt hängen die Hochschulräte ziemlich in...

Public procurement system is constituted by the procurements needed by the State as well as the operations carried out to bring its property to the use of private sector. Different laws are applicable to these two types of operations. Public Procurement Law numbered 4734 is applicable to...

The current work focuses on the economics of corruption, with an emphasis on the influence of internet users and press freedom on the perception of corruption. An analysis of crosssectional data obtained for 113 countries in 2010 was implemented by means of a generalized linear model involving a...

This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We …rst consider the case of an elected...

The paper examines some hindrances to achieving effective and efficient Public Service delivery in Nigeria. It also highlights basic Public Service rules and Conduct and recommends regular re-training of staff and will- power by those in authority to apply official sanctions dispassionately as...

Using and surfing on Internet has been increased and extended that can be noticed internet is one of essential components of human life. According to this view can be said: Internet should solve a lot of problems in Human life and societies. Corruption is one of the problems that is common in...

The essay presents and explains a highly stylized story of the reactions of the structure of a university to a constitutional reform – in the university law – that radically changed the power structure from a bottom-up representative system to a top-down hierarchical system practically...