correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

such as Chile, Barbados and Uruguay, however, report levels of corruption similar to those displayed by most European … find that constitutional power concentration is in fact a determinant of corruption. Yet, the constitutional provisions …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980-2018. The …