Many variables have been proposed by past studies as significant determinants of corruption. This paper asks whether … their estimated impact on corruption is robust to alteration of the conditioning information set. A Global Sensitivity … corruption. These are: economic development, Protestant religion, colonial heritage, uninterrupted democracy and political …

safeguards to ensure contractors' performance were in place. The private contract system was effectively undermined by corruption … services. In this paper, we develop a framework for analysis that focuses on corruption on the part of players when a public …

Although there is valuable literature on areas of corruption, such as political and corporate corruption, a limited … number of papers have examined the determinants of administrative corruption. To the best of our knowledge, the multivariate … impacts of political instability and institutional weakness on administrative corruption, and the interplay between these …

We analyze the relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic … (perceived) corruption than open-list PR, we demonstrate that this relationship fails to hold once district magnitude is …-list contexts. Extending this insight, we show that political corruption gets more (less) severe as district magnitude increases …

lower levels of corruption. A cross-sectional analysis of the U.S. states finds a similar result. This result may be due to … omitted variable bias - an unobserved characteristic is correlated to both corruption and the level of women in government. We … relationship between women and government corruption …

by examining the effect of corruption, along with other governance qualities, on brain drain using data from 130 … variables. Our empirical results indicate that corruption is the primary driver of brain drain, outweighing the effects of other … corruption measures. Overall, our study provides new insights into the role of governance in shaping emigration patterns …

the world and fits the standard definition of corruption - the abuse of public power for private gain. Sextortion …. Using data from the Global Corruption Barometer, we find that the standard economic and institutional factors that predict … corruption do not significantly correlate with the share of people who have either experienced sextortion personally or know …

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 …