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Corruption in economic development - beneficial grease, minor annoyance, or major obstacle? [PDF]

open access: yes
The author reviews the overwhelming statistical evidence that countries with high levels of corruption experience poor economic performance. Corruption hinders economic development by reducing domestic investment, discouraging foreign direct investment ...
Shang-Jin Wei
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Profiling Corruption Perception in Africa: the Role of Religion, Gender, Education and Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study investigates attitude towards corruption and the role of gender, religion, education and age using a Nigerian survey data. It also seeks to establish how attitudes towards corruption relates to some other reported ethical measures such as ...
Bello, M., Gbadamosi, Gbolahan
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
wiley   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Corruption Education as an Element of the Education Process [PDF]

open access: yesScientific and Educational Areas Under Modern Challenges, 2021
Anna Iurevna Mokhorova   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Chinese Gift-Giving, Anti-Corruption Law, and the Rule of Law and Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This Article addresses the question of whether virtuous giftgiving in China can be used in the fight against corruption. Giftgiving, ubiquitous in Chinese familial, business, and official practices, has been under fire by both laws outside and within ...
Szto, Mary
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The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most research on the radical right attempts to identify the one central voting motive among its supporters, few studies have sought to differentiate between different types of voters. Given this research gap, we assume that there are multiple paths to the radical right and that different groups have different motives for their support ...
Florian Buchmayr
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption and entrepreneurship: A bibliometric analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The impact of corruption on entrepreneurial dynamics became an attractive topic for scholars after the appearance of public scandals that led to the delegitimization of many governments in the last 40 years.
Ceresia F.   +3 more
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Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents a cross‐national test of the portability of procedural justice theory (PJT). Drawing on nationally representative survey data from 30 diverse social, political, and legal contexts across Europe and beyond, we find that the theory travels well across national borders and that its psychological purchase is particularly ...
Jonathan Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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