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evasion. The author has also tried to find a causality relation between the option for tax evasion and corruption. The author … entire tax evasion, an important part being impossible to determine because of corruption. …
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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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A long intellectual tradition starting with Max Weber views an ideal bureaucracy as a completely rule-based system …. Exploiting a unique setting in China’s imperial bureaucracy, where a personnel reform shifted the appointment method for …
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Virtually all governments seek to fight tax evasion exploiting better and better technological devices. Despite of that the phenomenon still remains alive and kicking all around the world. The foregoing naturally arises the question in the title. This paper develops a simple model to provide...
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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