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Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making … corruption. Second, there is evidence of an incremental effect in the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Third …, lifelong learning defined as knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary education negatively affects corruption …
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government. But as the evidence exposed at the Charbonneau inquiry makes clear, this did not make systemic corruption disappear … incentives structure it provided. The patterns of corruption emerging from the Charbonneau inquiry bear the imprint of the so …
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. This paper examines the corruption cases that led to the 1964 passage of the Sports Bribery Act (18 U.S.C. § 224). We …
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In this contribution to a symposium sponsored by the Michigan State University Journal of International Law, the author argues that predominantly evolutionary Soviet transition to the Rule of Law (initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev's ‘Perestroika' at the end of the 1980s) was derailed by...
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Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. Some aspects of corruption … rigorous systematic research is lacking. This paper considers corruption in higher education in the media, following … corruption across the nations pointing to how exactly they differ and why. Major findings point to the following: some forms of …
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Higher education corruption is an emerging sub-field of research that has yet to develop its terminological apparatus … sociology. Accordingly, most of the terminology of higher education corruption is not unique fundamentally but derived from … that may be formulated as higher education corruption. This Glossary presents terminology used in research and discussion …
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-authors on corruption, ethical leadership, and social contracts theory, and relates that literature to corrupt activities by … corporate executives. Corruption is defined broadly to encompass executive self-dealing, which harms their firms. The specific … example, to propose a framework aimed at improving corporate governance and preventing future executive corruption. The …
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and the negative externality caused to other people. We show that neither gender is uniformly more corruption prone …
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Standard anticorruption interventions consist of intensified monitoring and sanctioning. Rooted in principal-agent theory, these interventions are based on the assumption that corrupt acts follow a rational cost-benefit calculation by gain-seeking individuals. Given their mixed results, however,...
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for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement …, discretionary procedure auctions are associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of …
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