We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … subjects. We compare average contributions between two conditions with the same efficiency: a corruption condition, where an … administrator can expropriate part of contributions, and a control condition without corruption. Compared to the control condition …

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social … determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems influence … corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the literature, by relating corruption to different features of the electoral system …

changes in an index of corruption perceptions between the current and the last elections. Our results suggest that corruption … system and the democratic experience are important determinants of the voters' reaction and control of corruption; while … corruption, no perceptible effect of this kind was found in countries with mature democracies, and the evidence is inconclusive …