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Free Media and Quality of Government: The role of media in promoting quality of government institutions in the European Union
(2012-10)
While the relationship between freedom of the media and corruption has been established, it is open whether media freedom also contributes to higher quality of government. The basic argument in this article is that previous ...
Is Corruption Understood Differently in Different Cultures? Anthropology meets Political Science
(2013-03)
This paper aims to investigate how ideas and socio-cultural preferences of “public” versus “private” account for the presence of bribery and corruption practices. Understanding corruption in terms of the differences that ...
Corruption and Political Participation
(2014-11)
Based on an understanding of political participation as key for a functioning democracy, the paper examines the relationship between corruption perceptions and political participation. Founded on previous literature on the ...
What’s the Use of a Free Media? The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption and Promoting Quality of Government.
(2013-11-15)
Free media have traditionally been seen as vital to democratization and economic development. International actors, such as UN, the World Bank, the EU, Transparency International, the OECD and the research field in its ...
Public Administration and Corruption – How To Get the Institutions That Work
(2015-05-07)
Corruption is a global problem, impacting on both economic and human development. The last few decades, social science research has paid increasing attention to the problem, but rit emains limited in many aspects, not least ...
Variation in Corruption Between Mexican States Elaborating the Gender Perspective
(2010-06)
Dollar et al. (2001) sparked off research on gender and corruption. They showed, in a
cross-country comparative study, that a high number of women in elected office is
related to a low level of corruption. Whether there ...
Quality of Government Affect Voter Turnout in the European Regions
(2013-03)
While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic factors related to the “input” side of the political process, we examine the “output” side of the political process – and advance ...