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Anti-Corruption - A Big Bang Theory
(2007-05)
Quality of Government: What You Get
(2008-09)
Corruption Kills
(2009-06)
Various international organizations have documented the existence of corruption and
similar practices in many different areas of the health care sector. Empirical studies
show that in many poor countries over 80 percent ...
Social Protection Strategies in Efficient and Inefficient States
(2009-12)
It is well known that social and labor market policies vary greatly among the advanced industrialized countries, not just in terms of overall spending but also in terms of the allocation of resources across different ...
All for All: Equality, Corruption and Social Trust
(2006)
The importance of social trust has become widely accepted in the social
sciences. A number of explanations have been put forward for the stark variation in social
trust among countries. Among these, participation in ...
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2006)
The main question addressed in this paper is how the great variation in the level of social trust between
different countries can be explained? Most empirical research on this question has been based on
survey data which ...
The Mechanisms of Corruption: Interest vs. Cognition
(2006)
paper starts by identifying a central theoretical problem in contemporary research
about political corruption. While a lot of energy has been spent trying to figure out what
types of political and economic institutions ...
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2005)
Few experimental studies have investigated important factors for people’s perceptions
of the trustworthiness of others. Building on theories that point at the importance of
trustworthy government institutions, an experiment ...
Exploring a Causal Relationship between Vertical and Horizontal Trust
(2005)
Three experiments investigating how a possible causal relationship works between
vertical trust (i.e., trust in authorities) and horizontal trust (i.e., trust in others) are
reported. In Experiment 1, 40 undergraduate ...