Coercive institutions are essential components of authoritarian states and contribute to regime durability. However, variation in the internal structures of these institutions remains relatively unexplored. I argue that frequent intra-agency reforms of coercive institutions shape the incentives...

Recent transparency reforms in China are intended in part to help activists, journalists, and others to limit the ability of the local party-state to engage in practices that not only harm ordinary Chinese but also go against central government interests. However, implementing these reforms...

In this paper we look at the impact of broad policy reforms on the levels of corruption. We use a structural break approach to identify country specific time periods in which significant shifts in corruption levels take place. We then correlate these times of change with a set of co-variates...

Ende der 80er/Anfang der 90er ereignete sich eine der historisch einzustufenden Zäsuren der Geschichte: der Zusammenbruch des östlichen Wirtschafts- und Hegemoniesystems. Die Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas leiteten eine Transformation ihrer Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und ihrer politischen Ordnungen...