A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge … the conventional definition of corruption as being too narrow, legalistic and unduly focused on the public sector, while …

"corruption". Such analytical distinction helps us in understanding how redistributive politics can adversely affect the quality … associated with a higher degree of corruption but somewhat lower magnitude of "redistributive politics". We build up a political … choice model where corruption and redistribution are treated as substitutes in the political strategy space. Our paper is …

We examine the effect of corruption in municipal governments on health and education outcomes in the Philippines. We … find that corruption lowers the immunization rate of children, delays the vaccination of newborns, prevents the treatment …, and increases waiting time of patients at health clinics. Corruption also has a negative effect on education outcomes: it …

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

concepts: voice and accountability, political instability and violence, government effectiveness, regulatory burden, rule of …

countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political … Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

the dependent variable. Organized crime is also found to cause episodes of corruption in the public administration. A …