Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is often thought of as a uniformly
positive tool making governments more transparent, accountable, and less corrupt …

As is increasingly recognised in academic literature and by international organisations,
corruption acts as a major deterrent to growth and development. The aim of this survey is to …

The present inquiry addresses the nexus between the development of electronic
government and corruption in the provision of public sector services in developing and …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how various types of auditing may contribute to fight
corruption. While previous literature has primarily addressed auditing's ability to prevent …

Corruption is generally defined as the misuse of public authority, and political corruption is
here defined as corruption in which the political decision-makers are involved. In addition to …

Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of
developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored …

Over the past decade, corruption has elicited increasing attention in the construction
industry, and several studies have been conducted and published on the topic of forms of …

In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research
on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public …

State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their
empirical study still lacks sufficient analytical tools. This paper develops a new conceptual …

One of the new avenues in the study of political corruption is that of neo-institutional
economics, of which the principal-agent theory is a part. In this article a principal-agent …