When Do Citizens Support Corrupt Politicians? The Trade‐Offs Between Corruption and Competence
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The intriguing paradox of wide public disdain for corruption alongside popular corrupt politicians exists globally. By speaking to public ethics theory and rational choice theory, this study examines the trade‐off in which citizens tolerate corrupt officials in exchange for their competence to deliver public benefits.
Wenyan Tu, Hanyu Xiao, Xing Ni
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Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies [PDF]
We present and test empirically a new theory of property and contract rights. Any incentive an autocrat has to respect such rights comes from his interest in future tax collections and national income and increases with his planning horizon.
Clague, Christopher +3 more
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Autocracy of Mr. Parham : his remarkable adventures in this changing world
, 2015 Autocracy of Mr ...
Wells, H. G.
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Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect? || Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect? Synthesis Paper
, 2021 The particular concern of this paper is how autocratic, non-accountable governance connects to other dimensions of fragility. On a daily basis, development practitioners navigate their way through the volatile and frequently violent contexts of the ...
Robin Luckham (19284427)
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Restoring the Deformed Administrative State? Bureaucratic Repair After Illiberal Rule
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While scholarship has documented how populist and authoritarian‐leaning executives deform bureaucratic institutions, post‐illiberal reconstruction has only begun to receive attention. This paper develops an exploratory framework distinguishing four repair strategies (neutralizing, rectifying, balancing, and democratic hardening) and two repair
Michael W. Bauer +3 more
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Autocracy and Immortality : Vladimir Putin and the Problem of Time
This article offers a new perspective on autocracy. We analyze how the autocrat iscompelled to confront time—and ultimately mortality—as a political problem. As aregime type, autocracy revisits one of the oldest questions in political life: the ques-tion
Hjelm, Alexander +3 more
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Autocracy, Democracy and FDI inflows in Asian Developing Countries [PDF]
, 2017 The study examines the effect of autocracy and democracy on FDI inflows in Asian developing countries from 1990-2010. Using multiple regression analysis the study found the positive and significant effect of autocracy on FDI inflows in the selected range
Lala, Gule, Shah, Mumtaz Hussain
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Polish Interwar [Non]Democracy from the View-Point of Julije Benešić
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2019 In the article, the image of Polish democracy/autocracy during the Second Republic has been reconstructed. The subject of the analysis were the autobiographical notes entitled Osam godina u Varšavi written by Julije Benešić who stayed in Warsaw in the ...
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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Human capital and corruption: a microeconomic model of the bribes market with democratic contestability [PDF]
To overcome market failures society creates common laws that stimulate or penalize individual actions, the enforcement of which depends on the actions of public authorities who may be susceptible to corruption.
Pedro Cosme Costa Vieira +1 more
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