Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 6, pp. 857-886
This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …