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judiciary. The result is what Lessig calls lawful and systemic “Type 2” political corruption, in which policies favorable to … corruption redistribute income from consumers to shareholders, but Type 2, especially, also reduces aggregate welfare. They do so … Type 2 corruption and the resulting threat to the future security of the United States. Reform of the campaign finance …
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Who gets elected to political office? The negative selection hypothesis posits that the inherently dishonest run for office, expecting to earn political rent. Alternatively, the positive selection hypothesis suggests that individuals join politics to make a difference. Developing country...
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the interrelation of e-government with corruption in the public sector. The authors explore possible causal and dependency … relations of the established interlink between e-government and public sector corruption. Although it is universally … acknowledged that corruption is an evil, there is much debate over which determinants of corruption are important. Using …
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corruption, which becomes pronounced in the creative ways by which strategies of capture adjust to shifting opportunities and … constraints. Clients are appointed in state offices and extract bribes directly from citizens. ‘Client corruption' replaces …
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This paper explores the potential for empirical analysis of corruption and countervailing action, based on data … corruption and direct forms of countervailing action comprehensively. This theory is borne out by data collected from three …
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Corruption as one of the oldest phenomenon in human society exists in every society to an extent. Giving the extant … literature on corruption and its implication on economic growth in developing countries, this paper makes a case for … institutionalizing nudge approach in fighting the social canker. Corruption has been given diverse definitions by different scholars …
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By far, the most popular type of corruption measurements used is Corruption Perception Index published annually since … 1995 by Transparency International. We examine whether country differences of the Corruption Perception Index existing in … countries. Results of our analysis indicate that the Corruption Perception Index for 129 countries is conversing toward a catch …
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contributors and their knowledge of, and/or experience of, corruption in the Asia Pacific Region. Hand in hand, the theoreticians … ramifications of corruption and how breathtaking it is in its depth. They note the different changes that have occurred in the …: the ‘Asian Century' is here.Corruption's costs have not gone away: plus ça change, plus ça meme chose. They have, instead …
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