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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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motive. Using clustered OLS regression with fixed effects and interaction terms, I find that there is in fact a "corruption …
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In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …
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This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …
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corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …
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There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political …
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between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …
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between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526172
In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685876