legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …

The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices. The main … goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research … methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we …

funds are withdrawn in the short term). This study introduces a new perspective on the role of corruption in investment … growth and provides quantitative estimates of the impact of corruption on the investment inflows. Motivated by these issues …, the main objective of this article is to empirically reexamine the effects of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI …

accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …

regulated oversight of the revolving door to prevent corruption. On the other end, models of abuse of power, characterized by …

capture require that the revolving door should be regulated to prevent corruption, while models of abuse of power, in which …

paper aims to analyse the governance mechanisms and the related accountability requirement in order to investigate if there …