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Quality of Government and Access to Safe Water
(2011-03)
According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2.6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 percent ...
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government?
(2011-01)
While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government involving European
countries has focused on national differences, sub-national variation has been
neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This paper ...
Myths of Corruption Prevention: What is (not) good with a Weberian Bureaucracy?
(2011-11)
It is often stated that the public sector should be separated from politics and that an isolated bureaucracy, in this sense, is less prone to corruption. The cornerstone of such propositions is that the activities of ...
Public Perceptions of Corruption: The Prevalence and Moral Rejection of Corruption in Sweden
(2011-10)
This paper analyses citizens´ perception of corruption in Sweden along two dimensions: a) the
spread of corruption among public officials, politicians, and businessmen, and b) the degree of
acceptance for corrupt behaviors ...
Does Corruption Cause Aid Fatigue?
(2011-12)
Does corruption reduce support for foreign aid? General explanations for aid fatigue, such as meagre
development results and the perception that taxpayers’ money is being wasted fail to solve what
we call the aid-corruption ...
Reexamining the Relationship Between Press Freedom and Corruption
(2011-11)
A widespread and commonly held belief is that a free and independent press fulfills a both significant
and important role in fighting corruption. In numerous policy proposals and general recommendations, the importance ...
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
(2011-11)
The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ...
The ethnography of corruption: research themes in political anthropology
(2011-03)
One striking feature of the booming literature on corruption in the social sciences is
the comparatively weak role played by anthropology. A recent World Bank review
notices that anthropological studies dealing with ...
Why Pay Bribes? Collective Action and Anticorruption Efforts
(2011-12)
This paper suggests that the effectiveness of current anticorruption policy suffers from a focus on
the scale of the corruption problem instead of type of corruption that is to be fought. I make a
distinction between ...
Does transparency generate legitimacy? An experimental study of procedure acceptance of open-and closed-door decision-making
(2011-09)
Transparency has been a major trend in reforms of political institutions and public administrations
in the last decades. This article analyses the main rationale for supplying transparency from the governing elites’ ...