Corruption in Privatization and Governance Regimes

Privatization and Corporate Governance:

Privatizations in developing countries that don’t embrace a governance perspective will disappoint. This paper introduces the concept of ‘governance chains’ that can constrain the ‘grabbing hands’ of public and private actors by providing information and accountability mechanisms for investors. Recently available empirical data from established firms from 49 countries around the world provides ...

Privatization and Corporate Governance in Brazil

The reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has become an integral part of most macroeconomic stabilisation programmes implemented worldwide in recent years. The main instruments used to reform these enterprises have been divestiture and workforce downsizing. In Latin America, in particular, the pursuit of fiscal consolidation has added another important dimension to public enterprise reform. ...

Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the monopoly of power at the national level by bringing decision making closer to people. Localization strengthens government accountability to citizens by involving c...

Poverty, corruption and governance in Fiji

Sources of Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes

Objectives. We seek to investigate the determinants of corruption in authoritarian polities. We hypothesize that corruption in nondemocratic settings will be greater where the ruling group is personalistic rather than a political party or a military clique and that it will be greater where rulers expect to remain in power longer. We construct a new operationalization of the selectorate theory a...