This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …

corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …

considered as existing in the political and economic world . Here we refer to corruption as well as to the role of money as a …

perceived corruption. The results indicate that both factors relate to tax non-filing and moreover, that perceived service …

of corruption have received great attention. We reproduce this correlation for 177 countries from 1998 to 2014. Once … linked to lower corruption. Exploiting different dimensions of culture as country-specific characteristics, our analysis … shows that power distance and masculinity systematically affect corruption. These two cultural characteristics are …

, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …. Furthermore, misplaced belief in a market economy where morals and ethics play no role paved the way to serious lapses in …

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … since, as we show, it comes at the expense of cutting food consumption. These findings suggest that corruption is a …

We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … widespread corruption. …

therefore focus on what happens to the quality of judicial institutions and political corruption around coup attempts and other …

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …