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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.
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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.

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Effects of WTO accession on policy-making in sovereign states: Preliminary lessons from the recent experience of transition countries

TL;DR: The most remarkable success of the World Trade Organization in recent years has been the expansion of WTO Membership and the continued stream of applications of countries to accede to the WTO as discussed by the authors.
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How does bribery affect public service delivery? micro-evidence from service users and public officials in peru

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore both the price and the quantity components of the relationship between governance and services delivery using micro-level survey data: the bribery tax itself (which a priori may be regressive or progressive), as well as the discouraged user effect.
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Trust in international organizations: An empirical investigation focusing on the United Nations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey, covering 38 countries, to investigate trust in international organizations, specifically in the United Nations.
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Traffic Fatalities and Public Sector Corruption

TL;DR: In this article, the role played by public sector corruption in determining traffic fatalities was investigated and the authors found that such corruption plays a significant role in the epidemics of traffic fatalities that are common in relatively poor countries.
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Remittances and corruption

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of remittances on corruption using panel data for 111 countries over the period of 1986-2010 and found that remittance increase corruption, especially in non-OECD countries.
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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Legal Determinants of External Finance

TL;DR: The authors showed that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcement, have smaller and narrower capital markets than those with stronger investor protections.
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Corruption and Growth

TL;DR: In this paper, a newly assembled data set consisting of subjective indices of corruption, the amount of red tape, the efficiency of the judicial system, and various categories of political stability for a cross section of countries is analyzed.
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Political Order in Changing Societies

TL;DR: This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis as mentioned in this paper, and its Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the original publication as well as its lasting importance.