Recent police corruption cases in several cities, including New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, highlight the association of police corruption with illegal drug activities. You asked us to study the impact of drug trafficking on the corruption of police in large cities that have a high incidence of drug trafficking and drug abuse. As agreed with your office, in conducting our preliminary work,...

This monograph is the first comprehensive study in Ukraine on administrative liability for corruptionrelated offenses. Research considers: concept and signs of corruption; progress legislation corruption-related offenses; regulation offenses foreign countries; objective features corpus delicti; subjective theoretical applied problems prospects improving Legal analysis provisions current committ...

BACKGROUND Information on the global risk factors of children mortality is crucial to guide global efforts to improve survival. Corruption has been previously shown to significantly impact on child mortality. However no recent quantification of its current impact is available. METHODS The impact of corruption was assessed through crude Pearson's correlation, univariate and multivariate linear...

There has been a different success story in fighting corruption developing and developed countries. In recent years, become endemic pervasive. Malaysia dubiously branded as kleptocracy made headlines worldwide. This article examines factors that influence the outcome perceived previous efforts to implement anti-corruption strategies by government combat Malaysia. Using structured review process...

Regulation is widely considered as the key issue in reforms of public service sectors. But it has been pointed early to the problem that regulatory capture could undermine the stated aims of the reforms. This paper reviews the concept and the literature of regulatory capture under the special focus of public service sectors. Although mentioning corruption as an important mean way of capture, th...

Why are some states more corrupt than others? More specifically, why is post-communist Romania significantly more corrupt than post-communist Hungary even though both transitioned to democracy from USSR satellite states in 1989 and both went on to enter the European Union? This paper argues that though the implementation of communism in political institutions at the time of transition cannot se...

This paper develops a game-theoretic model of “petty corruption”by government o¢ cials. Such corruption is widespread, especially (but not only) in developing and transition economies. The model goes beyond the previously published studies in the way it describes the structure of bureaucratic “tracks,”and the information among the participants. Entrepreneurs apply, in sequence, to a “track” of ...

We explore what group reputation is and model its formation and evolution. We define a player’s group reputation as the belief others have about the characteristics of the group he belongs to, which is based only on group signals. A player’s individual reputation is derived from his group reputation by adding individual signals. A model of group reputation of civil servants is constructed to id...

Anticorruption awareness raising efforts are designed to encourage citizens resist and report corruption but have been found either not work or unwanted effects—including increasing bribe payment. This article represents the first test of whether these also undermine critical aspects a society's social contract, namely, willingness pay tax. Using household level survey experiment in Lagos, Nige...