Corruption is usually depicted in one of two ways: as stemming from a lack of government accountability, or from a lack of capacity. Neither depiction predicts that the structure of institutions meant to control corruption should vary across autocratic regimes. If corruption results from moral hazard between politicians and citizens, then all unaccountable governments should eschew anticorrupti...

We present a simple agency model with revenue-maximizing government and many public officials (agents) in charge of collecting payments from citizens. Agents are two types, honest potentially dishonest, the latter having an inherent propensity to demand bribes This may eventually turn into actual (perceived) corruption depending on strategy pursued by government. In equilibrium, we derive non-l...

The sale and purchase of positions as a form corruption in the selection process for local government Indonesia is violation law public morals. Corruption complex social phenomenon that requires an objective study can be studied from various fields, one which sociology. This aims to explain sociological perspective on buying selling government. method this literature with seven steps based Corn...

This paper examines the relationship between the legislature and the public administration in postwar Italy (understood as the period from about 1948 through 1994). Italian public administration is normally characterized as poorly designed and ine±cient. A principal-agent framework would lead one to believe that political control of the bureaucracy was inadequate in Italy, and that extensive bu...

corruption defined as abuse of power by governmental officials for personal goals.in recent years, many articles about determinants of corruption have been written that introduced so many variables as determinants of corruption. these factors can be divided into two categories: economic and non-economic factors.in these article we examine the effect of economic activities combination on corrupt...

Abstract Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive institutional environment? We explore these questions in a study of privatization in postcommunis...