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- Title
Have you been served, your honor? Yes, thank you, your excellency: the judiciary and political corruption.
- Authors
Sekkat, Khalid
- Abstract
Using a sample of 56 countries (28 rich and 28 poor), observed over the period 2004–2013, our paper develops an analysis of the contagion of corruption at the inter-institutional level. More precisely, it examines whether corruption in the justice system is an important factor to explain the expansion of corruption in politics. We find a clear unidirectional causal effect of corruption in the justice system on corruption in parliament. Low corrupt justice induces low corrupt politics. The results are robust to various checks. It appears that reducing corruption in justice alone causes a direct reduction of corruption in politics. Since fighting corruption is very costly, the result highlights the additional benefit of devoting greater resources to curbing judicial corruption.
- Subjects
JUDICIAL corruption; JUSTICE administration; EXCELLENCE; POLITICAL corruption; CORRUPTION
- Publication
Constitutional Political Economy, 2022, Vol 33, Issue 3, p326
- ISSN
1043-4062
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10602-021-09348-4