corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state's political capacity and … corruption has not been addressed by the existing academic literature. To measure the political capacity of a country, the … reducing corruption. On the other hand, a strong political capacity provides them with the opportunity for rent-seeking and …

factors as potent determinants of opportunistic behavior, corruption, and capture of government officials. Only now are these … relationships becoming conventional wisdom among specialists in economies in transition. Ten years into the transition, corruption … available data on the incidence of corruption and on institutional development, they provide preliminary evidence on the link …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …