Browsing by Author "Stephenson, Matthew C."
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Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing “Trap”: Implications for Reform Strategy
Stephenson, Matthew C. (2019-06)Corruption is widely believed to be a self-reinforcing phenomenon, in the sense that the incentive to engage in corrupt acts increases as corruption becomes more widespread in the relevant community. Leading scholars have ... -
Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
Cuellar, Mariano-Florentino; Stephenson, Matthew C. (2020-09)Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that cur-rently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their history, afflicted with sim-ilarly pervasive ...