The changes in how people consume news and the emergence of digital and distributed
news sources call for a reexamination of the relationship between news use and trust in …

This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

An East Asian Renaissance, by a World Bank team led by Chief Economist for East Asia &
Pacific, Dr Homi Kharas and Economic Adviser, Dr Indermit Gill is the first comprehensive …

We test the commonly stated, but rarely investigated, assertion that making political
institutions more transparent is an effective method for combating corruption. This assertion …

Recent research finds that states with more women involved in government are also less
prone to corruption (Dollar, Fisman, and Gatti 2001; Swamy et al. 2001). But a review of …

Over the past two decades, many governments around the world have adopted e-
government as an anti-corruption tool. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the …

Utilizing a unique data set from the Italian Ministry of Justice reporting the transmission to the
Chamber of Deputies of more than the thousand requests for the removal of parliamentary …

Interest in the political and economic consequences of transparency has grown significantly
over the past decade. The literature, however, has been hampered by methodological …

Do voters in Africa use elections to hold governments accountable for their performance in
office? In contexts of limited information and weak state capacity, it can be difficult for citizens …

Most models and empirical tests of the relationship between corruption and democracy
assume corruption falls as democracy matures. Yet recent theoretical developments and …