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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Political corruption."”.
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Political Corruption: Theory and Evidence From the Brazilian Experience
1Rose-Ackerman (1978) and Shleifer and Vishny (1993).
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL ENGAGMENT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS ON VOTING AND GOVERNMENT TRUST IN THE UNITED STATES
… In international research particularly, political corruption has been shown to negatively affect citizen trust, though the effect of corruption on voter turnout is mixed. To date, no research has examined the effect of corruption on voting and government trust in the United States over a …
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The role of the Romanian press in reporting political corruption
… the role of the Romanian press in reporting political corruption. It argues that as a part of a Romanian society tolerant to corruption, the Romanian press manages to report corruption but fails to be part of the solution to the corruption problem by holding the political elite to account. To …
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Measuring Political Corruption from Population Outcomes: An alternative to perception measures
<p>The impact of corruption is an increasingly important and visible topic for academics, policy makers, and the public. Yet corruption is exceptionally difficult to directly observe and empirical measurements of corruption remain highly contested. Despite the increasing availability of corruption …
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Political corruption: A cross-national examination of public, judicial and legislative responses (Canada, Germany).
… is utilized. An analysis of the definitions of corruption that are available follows, and the definition that is used in this paper is also specified. A brief profile of the two cases selected for the thesis is also presented. The second section of this thesis presents the details of the …
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The impact of political corruption on service delivery in South Africa: a review of the Mpumalanga Rural Housing Project
… the seriousness of the manifestation corruption South African government. It develops an analytical approach whose ideas and framework are largely based on available sources on political corruption across all fields of knowledge. I have thus eliminated what I consider as a radical and …
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A critical analysis of international financial institutions' understanding of political corruption : a focus on the IMF, World Bank, and the ANC
… argues that the IFIs’ understanding of corruption, and thus their anticorruption and good governance policies and prescriptions, is based on the conceptualisation of corruption as a state centric phenomenon. As such, they are not concerned with corruption as a systematic problem. The …
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Combating Corruption: A Comparison of National Anti-Corruption Efforts
… mechanisms designed to monitor and control political corruption at the national level. The paper will provide comparisons of these arraignments and control systems across three nations. The thesis will identify differences across countries in terms of organizational and institutional …
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Corruption as a rational choice: The case of the first post-independence government of Ghana: 1951-1966
… in spite of the fact that many well educated political leaders emerged from the potentially good human resource base of Africa—Nasser, Nkrumah, Nyerere, Balewa, Senghor and more recently, Mandela whose terms of offices held so much hope for the ordinary African, nothing concrete seems to have …
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The effects of revealed corruption on voter attitudes and participation: Evidence from Brazil
How do voters respond to information about political corruption? Prior research provides conflicting evidence about whether information about political corruption drives voters to participate or withdraw from electoral politics, and about whether those who participate are able to remove corrupt …
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The role and treatment of political parties in liberal democracies with reference to the United Kingdom, Turkey and the European Convention on Human Rights
This thesis analyses current situations of political parties in the UK and Turkey with reference to liberal democracy in general and the European Convention on Human Rights in particular. Political parties are essential elements of liberal democracies. In order to function properly, political …
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The Baby Out With the Bathwater! Securitization of Corruption and its Impact on Human Security
… in 1975, this paper looks at the intersection of political corruption and human security through the lens of the theory of securitization and desecuritization. In this, I study the deeper politics--i.e., the frame of reference of actors--behind the distortions in the civic and political …
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Republican ideals and the reality of patronage: a study of the Veterans’ Movement in Cuba, 1900-24
… emergence of Cuba as a sovereign nation, and the political corruption that plagued the republic. It investigates in detail, not only the independence movement that established this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture and fission under the emerging power of the …
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Development in New Orleans East: Its Past, Present, and Future Potential
… that far surpasses the economic adversities and political corruption that is embedded in its history.
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William Henry Harrison's Indiana: Paternalism and Patriotism on the Frontier, 1795--1812
… i.e., a tendency to attribute all social or political ills to British influence. The Declaration of Independence had blamed George III for slavery, Indian wars, and political corruption, and the next generation of Americans continued to do so. While previous authors have correctly attributed …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… violence, public women, labor competition, and political corruption. In addition to visual analysis, gender, environmental, and discourse analysis are applied to representations of Irish immigrants. Taking the study of antebellum nativism in a new direction, this thesis demonstrates that mass …
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Preserving the Heartbeat of Trench Town: A Vision for Urban Renewal
… neighbourhood is plagued with crime, historic political corruption and urban decay -- posing challenges for sustainable urban development. Through an in-depth analysis of the historical, political, Culture and architectural context of Trench Town, this thesis proposes a series of interventions …
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