We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of attitudes toward bribe taking in the largest economies on four continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several demographic variables, including gender, age,...

Parteienpatronage, überbordende Bürokratie, gleich geschaltete Medien, Justiz unter dem Einfluss der Politik sowie Großunternehmen, in denen Korruption zum alltäglichen Geschäft gehört: Es ist wirklich etwas faul in unserem Staate, und der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her. Die politische und...

Why do businesses contribute to political parties? Is money a universal language? Do business contributions to political parties convey different messages in different countries? This book answers these questions based on intensive case studies of Australia, Canada, and Germany