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Corruption and financial intermediation in a panel of regions: cross-border effects of corruption [PDF]

The importance of financial market reforms in combating corruption has been highlighted in the theoretical literature but has not been systemically tested empirically.
Ronald MacDonald, Muhammad Tariq Majeed
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Beyond the Populist Moment: Nationalism and the Democratic Chain of Conflict

Constellations, EarlyView.
Michaelangelo Anastasiou
wiley   +1 more source

Consent and Gender‐Based Violence: R v Hobday

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This note analyses the Court of Appeal decision in R v Hobday in the context of the longstanding but controversial caselaw on the relevance of consent to offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) or above. It considers whether the vulnerabilities of victims of gender‐based violence are adequately recognised by the judiciary in an area ...
Mandy Burton
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China [PDF]

We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is ...
Bin Dong, Benno Torgler
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Why We Shouldn't Trust Institutions: Critical Theory and the Case for Radical Distrust

Constellations, EarlyView.
Zohreh Khoban
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Law, development and corruption in Bangladesh

, 2007
Corruption is a complex set of processes involving human behaviour and many other variables, some of which are difficult to recognize or measure. Corruption is the misuse of public power for private profit₁. (Huntington, 1968, p.59).
Haque, Masudul
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Tax Evasion and Corruption in Tax Administration [PDF]

Corruption, Tax Evasion, No commitment, Maximal ...
Marcello D'Amato, Antonio Acconcia, Riccardo Martina   +2 more
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source