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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Decentralization and the Quality of Government
Daniel Treisman,Sanchita Bannerjee,Stephen Bloom,Anton Rushakov,Preston Keat,Gary W. Cox,Tim Frye,Aart Kraay,Barbara Geddes,Michael Keen,Edgar Kiser,Susan Rose-Ackerman,Pedro Camoes,Adam Przeworski,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,Adam Brinegar +15 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that countries with more tiers of government tend to have higher perceived corruption and to provide public healthcare services and infrastructure less effectively, while those with strong, regionally-chosen legislative upper houses also do worse at healthcare and infrastructure provision.
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Does foreign aid corrupt
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the impact of foreign aid on corruption using geographical and cultural distance to the donor countries as instrumental variables to assess causality and show that aid decreases corruption.
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross Section of Countries
TL;DR: The authors found that more ethnically and lin guistically segregated countries, i.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a lower quality of government; there is no relationship between religious segregation and governance; trust is an important channel of influence; it is lower in more segregated countries.
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The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the impact of a crackdown on corruption in the public hospitals of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina during 1996-97 and found that higher wages play no role in inducing lower input prices when audit intensity can be expected to be maximal.
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Inequality and democratization: An elite-competition approach
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TL;DR: Ansell and Samuels as discussed by the authors argue that democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite interests are low.
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