superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … estimation procedures or the measures of corruption used. In terms of various dimensions of decentralized local governance …This paper attempts to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with …

decentralization accentuates the political power of local elites by shifting the arena in which water rights are contested …

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it …

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the … as a means to making government responsive and accountable to people can help reduce corruption and improve service …

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives …. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of … controlling for various macroeconomic and institutional factors, the development of corruption practices tend to increase the …

Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government … legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to … estimate the prevalence of reticent behavior, in order to isolate rates of corruption that fully reflect respondent reticence …

literature. The data are used to rank countries on political, fiscal and administrative dimensions of decentralization and … recent political movements and waves of dissatisfaction with governance around the world …

, improvement of public procurement competitiveness, and reduction of corruption. The paper finds that information and … relationship between e-procurement and bureaucratic corruption …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …