This article discusses one of the most important institutions in the modern world, namely
public bureaucracies, from a comparative perspective. Bureaucratic organizations can be …

Numerous studies have linked a range of economic, social, and institutional variables with
corruption in government. Yet, most of this literature overlooks the management of public …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

Incoming governments sometimes abuse their power to manipulate the allocation of
government contracts so as to buy loyalty from cronies. While scandals suggest such …

Despite significant investment in anticorruption instruments in the past decades, confusion
about their effectiveness remains. While a growing body of scholarship claims that …

This article traces the organization of corruption in public procurement, by theoretically and
empirically assessing the contribution of extra‐legal governance organizations (EGO) to …

This article constructs a grounded framework to study how corruption is consolidated in local
governments. We focus on the fine‐grained texture of corrupt practices that can only be …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether higher levels of transparency,
accountability, and participation have a statistically significant association with corruption …

Past corruption research at the individual level has mainly focused on demographics,
personality, attitudes, or morality related variables. Until now, only a few studies have …

To better understand street‐level bureaucracy in developing countries, this study focuses on
street‐level implementation as embedded within systemic corruption, which is well …