Hung-En Sung

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used hierarchical polynomial regression to evaluate the form of the democracy-corruption relationship and found that a cubic function best fitted the data. And they concluded that despite eruptions of corruption among intermediate democracies, the consolidation of advanced democraticinstitutions eventually reduced corruption.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the observed association between gender and corruption is spurious and mainly caused by its context, liberal democracy, a political system that promotes gender equality and better governance, and argued that women make governments more honest.

TL;DR: Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is a recurrent epidemic and valuable lessons from past epidemics of this nature can be learned if historical data are studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report findings from comparative analysis of perceptions of predatory organized crime conducted in 59 countries, and evaluate two hypotheses of predatory organised crime: state failure hypothesis argues that the failure of the state to deliver key political goods such as security, justice and stability encourages criminal groups to perform state functions.

TL;DR: This paper employed nationally representative prisoner survey data to assess gender-specific explanations of prison rule violations, including prior victimization, diagnosed mental disorders, and the amount of inmate contact with their families via visits and phone calls.