Why is corruption-defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain-perceived to be more widespread in some … countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular … analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to several indexes of "perceived corruption …

fight corruption. It draws on the current literature to argue that ICTs can be used to reduce corruption in many ways. First …, ICTs can be used to promote transparency that may lead to lower corruption. Second, they can be used for providing e … corruption. Finally, ICTs prevent the use of excessive force by the government by enabling citizens to share real time …

politicians may have to engage in political corruption and management. The presence of a well-informed electorate in a democratic … setting explains between one half and two thirds of the variance in the levels of governmental performance and corruption …

In order to study corruption when a person can adjudicate over property rights, we extend the Tullock contest model by … mandated, then the grand coalition forms with no corruption. There is corruption if he colludes with a subset of the workers … is, to divide and rule becomes an attractive prospect. This matches the empirical association between corruption and …

by countries' political, institutional and legal characteristics and particularly by the level of perceived corruption in … notwithstanding, results indicate that corruption and poor institutional quality significantly interact with economic cofactors and …

In McDonnell v. United States, the Supreme Court constrained the reach of federal anti-corruption law, declared the … campaign finance and political institutions. The article concludes that implementing civic anti-corruption requires either … jurisprudential innovation or novel approaches to enforcement.This article thereby integrates the history of modern anti-corruption …

over which cases they choose to take to court. Federal prosecutors handling an overwhelming majority of corruption cases … invites the possibility of political influence in the monitoring of corruption. Additionally, political disparities across … factors have on federal corruption cases, with an emphasis on states that are an important focus in the next presidential …

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption, political instability and economic growth. We … of the Arab Spring, as an exogenous shock, to measure the short-term effects of political shocks on corruption levels …

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …