Why is corruption-defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain-perceived to be more widespread in some … countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular … analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to several indexes of "perceived corruption …

politicians may have to engage in political corruption and management. The presence of a well-informed electorate in a democratic … setting explains between one half and two thirds of the variance in the levels of governmental performance and corruption …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

The problem of measuring changes in corruption internationally is significantly more daunting than that of estimating … their levels. We compute trends in corruption for groups of geographically proximate countries, based on the geographic … distribution of cases of cross-border bribes, and confirm that geographic variations in corruption are greater than time variations …

of prosecutorial corruption. For police officers, we find that prosecutorial independence is not decisive, but … prosecutorial corruption matters for whether suspected misconduct is likely to be prosecuted. …

Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …

This paper presents evidence for an effect of corruption on government concentration in OECD countries. Furthermore, it … suggests a rationale for this direction of causality: Corruption increases unemployment, and this effect is weaker for … countries with concentrated governments. Hence, voters appear to react to perceived corruption by electing a single strong party …

and, more importantly, as the rents from corruption are distributed differently. Thus, the economic system has an effect …In many developing and transition countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a … political economy perspective, as the majority of people in a corrupt country suffer from high corruption levels. Our model is …