Utilizing data from the power corporation of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, we study the politics of electricity theft over a ten year period (2000-09). Our preliminary results are that electricity theft is substantial in magnitude but that the extent of theft varies with the...

Utilizing a new dataset that reports criminal charges against candidates to India's Fourteenth Lok Sabha in the 2004 national legislative elections, we study the conditions that resulted in nearly a quarter of those elected facing or having previously faced criminal charges. We show that Indian...

We use a randomized saturation design to investigate whether domestic election observers reduce electoral fraud in the 2012 presidential elections in Ghana. Results show that observers reduce the probability of overvoting (more votes cast than registered voters) at observed stations by 60...

The eight countries examined in this study--Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden--have long been viewed as exemplifying "corporatist" industrial relations systems, in which union coverage is high, unions are influential and commonly have strong ties to...

We analyze the relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic nations. Whereas previous studies have shown that closed-list proportional representation is associated with greater (perceived) corruption than open-list PR, we demonstrate that...

We study the determinants of corruption in a sample of 40-odd authoritarian polities at the turn of the 21st century. Recent studies have proposed several parallel mechanisms potentially relevant for variations in the extent of corruption in authoritarian regimes. We put these various theories...

We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In Italy, Colombia, and Pakistan legislators and citizens respond similarly to hypothetical scenarios involving trade-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both...

We seek to investigate the determinants of corruption in authoritarian polities. We hypothesize that corruption in nondemocratic settings will be greater where the ruling group is personalistic rather than a political party or a military clique and that it will be greater where rulers expect to...

Il confronto tra indici di infrastrutturazione basati sulla consistenza fisica degli stock, e misure derivate da stime degli stock ottenute per mezzo della tecnica dell'inventario permanente, permette di giudicare l'efficienza relativa di diverse unita' territoriali nel trasformare risorse...