Ever since the spectacular boom and bust cycle of the Spanish real estate industry, endemic corruption at the local …-explored political determinant, this paper investigates the effect of local and regional alignment in fomenting corruption at the Spanish … indicates that the democratic political process may be effective in corruption control if agreements can be reached to remove …

This article analyses the association between personal values and the acceptability of corruption in Russia, France …, Germany, and Latvia. Several studies show that cultural values can be related to the level of corruption in the countries at … of corruption for an individual? (2) Is such an influence the same in different countries? A specialized methodology for …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999 - 2009 … matching methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected …

This study examined attitudes on the ethics of bribe taking in four European countries – France, Great Britain, Italy …

We contend that corruption must be detected as soon as possible so that corrective and preventive measures may be taken … public corruption based on economic and political factors. Unlike previous research, which is based on the perception of … corruption, we use data on actual cases of corruption. We apply the model to Spanish provinces in which actual cases of …