Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government …
Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors, while others assign public contracts more impartially? This article emphasizes the important interplay between politics …
N Charron - European Political Science Review, 2016 - cambridge.org
How well do corruption perception measures reflect actual levels of public sector corruption? Leading cross-national corruption perception measures have come under much theoretical …
B Rothstein - Governance, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Much research has argued for the importance of state's administrative capacity for development. Disregard for the rule of law and failure to get corruption under control are …
Recent years have seen an efflorescence of work focused on the definition and operationalization of democracy. One debate concerns whether democracy is best …
Two recent strands of research have proposed that state capacity facilitates autocratic and democratic survival, respectively. While convincing arguments sustain each of these …
Many contentious elections end in disputes about alleged fraud, irregularities, and malpractices. How do we know when these claims are valid and when they are false …
Through critical analysis of key concepts and measures of the rule of law, this book shows that the choice of definitions and measures affects descriptive and explanatory findings …
L Escresa, L Picci - The World Bank Economic Review, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is …