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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of … Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is … than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is …
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
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Media Freedom and Democracy: Complements or Substitutes in the Fight against Corruption?
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Hodler, Roland - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Democracy and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the fight against political corruption, but so far … corruption-reducing effect of democracy becomes stronger as media freedom increases. Using panel data covering the period 1980 … democracy and media freedom in the fight against corruption is also supported by Indian state level data.  …
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God does not play dice, but people should : random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2014
corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …
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Money talks to autocrats, bullets whistle to democrats : political influence under different regimes
Choon, Thea How; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Pinotti, Paolo - 2024
dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057721
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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes: Theory and evidence
Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017
This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving for political power and private rents. We find that economic development has different impacts on policy choices, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income...
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Political leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?
Prinz, Aloys L.; Sander, Christian J. - In: Economics of Governance 21 (2020) 4, pp. 299-334
Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between religion and the quality of public goods and services, measured by the so-called “delivery quality” index of the Worldwide Governance Indicators...
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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2012
Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168397
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
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Soft paternalism, merit goods, and normative individualism
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015
Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318409