We find anecdotal evidence suggesting that governments in poor countries have a more left
wing rhetoric than those in OECD countries. Thus, it appears that capitalist rhetoric doesn't …

Building on the large and growing empirical literature on the political behavior of individuals
in low income countries, this Chapter seeks to understand corruption through the lens of …

Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems
from the increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic …

In many developing and transition countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption. We
argue that the missing political support for anti‐corruption policies is due to a lack of …

Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems
from the increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic …

Corruption is usually depicted in one of two ways: as stemming from a lack of government
accountability, or from a lack of capacity. Neither depiction predicts that the structure of …

Why do voters support corrupt politicians? This question is of vital importance if it is believed
that corrupt politicians are often widely popular and that corruption has a detrimental effect …

Democracy is widely believed to have a constraining effect on political corruption. As
conventional wisdom has it, elections should give voters the means to do away with their …

Recently, corruption has been the focus of a number of articles in developmental economics
and, increasingly, in political science. While the economics literature has shown the …

This paper investigates how people form perceptions about corruption. By combining survey
data with system-level indicators in 30 countries, the author first explores the relationship …