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- Title
DEMOCRACY AND CORRUPTION.
- Authors
Boehm, Frédéric
- Abstract
It's been revised the arguments linking democracy to the control of corruption starting from the often heard call for a "strong man", an autocrat that could give a country the needed stability and that could take the decisions required to get rid of corruption. Clearly, the call does not survive empirical scrutiny. Rather, the evidence shows a robust negative relationship between level of corruption and level of democracy. However, the evidence also shows that the potential of democracy in fighting corruption hinges upon a series of conditions, and that the mere existence of formal political competition through regular elections on its own is not enough.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; CORRUPTION -- Social aspects; POLITICAL competition; CORRUPT practices in elections; POLITICIAN attitudes
- Publication
Dimensión Empresarial, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 2, p75
- ISSN
1692-8563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15665/rde.v13i2.558