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Transparency and Corruption: Evidence from India
Can freedom of information laws be harnessed by underprivileged members of society and used to obtain greater access to basic public goods that are otherwise attainable only through bribery? Drawing on a field experiment on access to ration cards among New Delhi’s slum dwellers, the authors show that India’s recently adopted freedom of information law is almost as effective as bribery in helping the poor to secure access to a basic public service.
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Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-National Comparison
In this paper the authors take a novel approach to understanding political corruption. They use panel data from a broad range of countries to support the theory that ideological polarisation can be used as a predictor of the perceived level of corruption within a country. Moreover, they claim that political polarisation itself can act as a constraint on corruption.
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Corporate Governance and Corruption: Ethical Dilemmas of Asian Business Groups
In this recent paper from the Journal of Business Ethics, the author explores the relationship between corporate governance and corruption in family-owned business groups in the Philippines. The study is based on 40 semi-structured interviews of elite business managers, academics, and government officials carried out in 2007.
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Robert J. Hanlon
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Jan 16, 2012 01:34 PM
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Corporate Governance, Elections, Judiciary, Local Government, Poverty, Transition Countries, Asia Pacific, Law Enforcement, Self-regulation, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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The European Social Survey, ESS Round 5 - 2010
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. It has three aims - First, to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions; Second, to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond; and third, to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators. This fifth round of the survey covers 28 countries, which includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.The questionnaire includes two main sections, each consisting of approximately 120 items; a 'core' module which remains relatively constant from round to round, plus two or more 'rotating' modules, repeated at intervals. The core module aims to monitor change and continuity in a wide range of social variables, including media use; social and public trust; political interest and participation; socio-political orientations; governance and efficacy; moral; political and social values; social exclusion, national, ethnic and religious allegiances; well-being; health and security; human values; demographics and socio-economics.
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Thomas Roca
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Oct 27, 2011 12:33 PM
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Civil Society, Judiciary, Local Government, Media, Organised Crime, Security, Europe and Central Asia, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Health
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World Development Indicators 2011
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, the World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's flagship statistical publication and establishes the benchmark against which development progress is measured. This 15th edition of WDI in its current format, aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives around the globe. It focuses on the impact of the decision to make data freely available under an open license and with better online tools. The section introductions discuss key issues in measuring the economic and social phenomena described in the tables and charts and introduce new sources of data. It includes more than 900 indicators in more than 90 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The data includes national, regional and global estimates.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Jul 12, 2011 02:17 PM
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Developement Assistance, Environment, Gender, Local Government, Post-conflict, Poverty, Security, Global, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Carribbean, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Extractives, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy, Water
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