The causes of corruption: a cross-national study
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The authors analyzed several indexes of perceived corruption compiled from business risk surveys for the 1980s and 1990s and found that countries with Protestant traditions, histories of British rule, more developed economies, and (probably) higher imports were less corrupt.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2000-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3592 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corruption Perceptions Index & Corruption.read more
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See No Evil: Heterogeneity in Public Perceptions of Corruption
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between elite and mass evaluations of corruption by combining survey data with system-level indicators in 30 countries and found that more economically fortunate individuals and those who supported the government in the previous election tend to be less critical of corruption.
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Japan, Korea, the Philippines, China: four syndromes of corruption
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that deeper influences in social, political and economic development, and contrasting institutional settings, create four distinctive syndromes of corruption, each with its own set of implications for relationships between wealth and power.
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Explicating factors for companies’ inclination towards corruption in Operations and supply chain management: An exploratory study in Germany
TL;DR: In this article, structural and organizational bases for companies, especially their purchasing units, to engage in corrupt business practices are explored, and the authors suggest that the factors of organizational complexity, corporate culture, internationality and functional complexity all influence a firm's inclination towards corruption, which in turn should manifest itself in the presence or absence of corruption control and prevention mechanisms.
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Haze pollution and corruption: A perspective of mediating and moderating roles
Yajie Liu,Feng Dong +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the transmission effect of economic development and foreign direct investment (FDI) on political corruption and haze pollution is analyzed. And the main results are as follows: more non-corrupt government agencies reduced the local haze pollution concentration.
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Electoral rules, corruption, inequality and evaluations of democracy
Todd Donovan,Jeffrey A. Karp +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used European Social Survey measures of democratic expectations and the Satisfaction with Democracy item to test for effects of electoral rules on perceptions of democracy and found that multipartyism/proportionality and preferential ballot structure appear to correspond with positive evaluations of elections and parties, and with greater satisfaction with how democracy is functioning.
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