Understanding community resiliency and crisis recovery is an important area of research.
Economic crises–whether spurred by natural disasters (hurricanes), pandemics (COVID-19) …

Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on
wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts …

The article examines areas of combating corruption in Ukraine, as a country with a high level
of corruption, and some other countries with successful experience in combating corruption …

Abstract The Great Recession led to a large decline in economic activity throughout the
entire United States with significant variation in its severity across regions. Our paper …

Why are politicians more likely to be prosecuted and convicted for corruption in some
contexts rather than in others? Pulling together disparate threads of the literature on what we …

We find that federal bureaucrats award more, larger, and less risky contracts to politically
connected firms when they have greater discretion over contracting outcomes. Using a …

Are corruption trials that involve the highest ranks in the public sphere and large private
companies biased against some groups? Existing research predominantly focuses on …

Are federal prosecutors influenced by partisan political concerns? We examine that question
by analyzing 40 years of federal corruption convictions at the state and federal district levels …

US military sources document more than 1800 conflicts of varying intensity between the
United States and tribes from 1830 to 1897. Negative binomial and Tobit regressions both …

Are corruption trials that involve the highest ranks in the public sphere and large private
companies biased against some groups? Existing research predominantly focuses on …