The Effect of Democracy on Corruption: Income is Key

被引：54
作者：
Jetter, Michael [1 ,2 ]
Montoya Agudelo, Alejandra [3 ]
Ramirez Hassan, Andres [3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
[2] IZA Bonn, Crawley, Australia
[3] Univ EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
来源：
WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2015年 / 74卷
关键词：
corruption; democracy; income levels; panel data; regime type; QUANTILE REGRESSION; BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION; DECENTRALIZATION; DETERMINANTS; INSTITUTIONS; TRANSITION; DIVERSITY; GENDER; PRESS; SIZE;
D O I：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.016
中图分类号：
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
This paper provides an explanation for the ambiguous relationship between democracy and corruption. Using rich panel data with annual observations from 1998 to 2012 allows us to control not only for country-and time-invariant factors but also for potential reverse causality between corruption and income levels in a 3SLS framework. Democracy reduces corruption but only in economies that have already crossed a GDP/capita level of approximately US$2,000 (in 2005 US$). For poorer nations, democratization is suggested to increase corruption. Other institutional characteristics are unlikely to drive this result and findings are robust to a variety of robustness checks and quantile regressions. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码：286 / 304
页数：19
相关论文
共 55 条
123456