A contribution to the empirics of press freedom and corruption

Freille, Sebastián; Haque, M. Emranul; Kneller, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2007.03.002

“…I thank a referee for his/her suggestion to use the IV Poisson model. 21 Freille et al (2007) suggested that political and economic influences on the media were strongly related to corruption. 22 Previous works generally used the percentage of Protestants to examine corruption.…”

Section: Estimation Based On 5-year-average Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters

Yamamura

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2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractA growing number of studies have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than disaster outcomes. Using panel data from 98 countries, this paper examines how public sector corruption is associated with the probability of technological disasters. It was found that public sector corruption raises the probability of technological disasters. This result is robust when endogeneity bias is controlled.

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“…For example, Costas et al (2011), Freille et al (2007, Lederman et al (2005), Adsera et al (2003), Brunetti and Weder (2003), and Besley, and Burgess (2002) provide evidence on the importance of free press, and Schleiter and Voznaya (2014) examples, that such corruption usually makes very little difference in the reelection fortunes of politicians even when it is public knowledge. Welch and Hibbing (1997), Dimock and Jacobson (1995), and Peters and Welch (1980) provide similar evidence in the case of U.S. Chang et al (2010), Fernández-Vázquez andRivero (2010), Manzetti and Wilson (2007) and Golden (2006) offer some explanations as to why the re-election chances of politicians known to be corrupt are affected only marginally.…”

Section: Review Of Corruption Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca

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Tansel

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2016

Journal of Economic Studies

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“…In addition to a stable parliamentary democracy, the risk of corrupt practices in the public sector is reduced by a guarantee of political accountability (Adsera et al 2003;Ackerman 2004) and freedom of the press (Besley et al 2002;Freille et al 2007;Kalenborn and Lessmann 2012). A free and independent press plays an important role in informing society, especially in a situation where the society is active and can apply pressure on the responsible behaviour of political institutions.…”

Section: Interdisciplinary Defi Nitions Of Corruption Perceive Corrupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic, Political, Social Factor of Corruption in the Slovak Republic

Meričková

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Bašteková

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Stejskal

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et al. 2017

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Interdisciplinary defi nitions of corruption perceive corrupt actions as contrary to legal and ethical standards aff ecting the public interest, perpetrated by a person in public offi ce. Th e main goal of the study is to identify the factors of corrupt acts in the public sector stemming from the economic, political, cultural and social environments in the Slovak Republic. Th rough the Delphi method we verify the relevance of economic, political and cultural-social factors of corrupt acts in the public sector defi ned in the theoretical framework of this issue. Th e Delphi method was used under the following conditions: the anonymity of experts, feedback control and statistical determination of a consensus of experts. Expert evaluation of the factors underlying corrupt behaviour in the public sector enabled us not only to detect the overall relevance of the factors, but also to identify areas where corruption in the public sector is most widespread, according to experts. We can state that the most problematic areas include the judiciary and the police.

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A contribution to the empirics of press freedom and corruption

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Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters

Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters

Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Economic, Political, Social Factor of Corruption in the Slovak Republic

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