The effect of democracy and press freedom on corruption: an empirical test

By Shyamal K. Chowdhury. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Democracy and Press Freedom on Corruption: Conditionality Matters (2013, methodology): “In columns (1) - (5) we include several control variables inspired by Chowdhury (2004) to ensure that our results are not biased by omitted variables. To show further resistance we integrated all additional control variables in one regression (see column 9). In columns (6) and (7) we use an alternat”
A Contribution to the Empirics of Press Freedom and Corruption (2007, methodology): “We therefore follow Brunetti and Weder (2003) and Chowdhury (2004) we select the ethno-linguistic fractionalisation index (ELF) as our instrument17.”
Corruption and Democracy (2009, methodology): “In fact, as Ades and Di Tella (1999: 987) state, ‘If anything, the lack of political rights seems to be associated with less corruption’.”
Exploring the links between corruption and growth (2011, neutral): “For example, several studies focused on the role of democracy (Chowdhury, 2004; Sung, 2004), others have investigated the role of decentralization and federalism (Fisman and Gatti, 2002; Arikan, 2004), and one on whether natural resources prevalence was a source of corruption (Leite and Weidmann,…”
Fighting Corruption in Africa: Do Existing Corruption-Control Levels Matter? (2012, neutral): “Government quality enshrined in regulation quality, rule of law, government effectiveness, voice & accountability and political stability(no violence) ensure greater economic and political freedoms which lead to less corruption(Chowdhury, 2004; Goel & Nelson, 2005).”
Do existing corruption levels matter in controlling corruption? ☆ ☆☆: Cross-country quantile regression estimates (2009, background): “12 The effects of economic freedom and political freedom on corruption have been found to be significant in other cross-country studies of the determinants of corruption (see Chowdhury, 2004; Goel and Nelson, 2005; May et al., 2002).”
Corruption, Democracy, and Environmental Policy (2006, background): “Cole and Neumayer (2005) estimated that, based on optimistic forecasts on economic growth and the effects of income levels on the environment, ambient concentrations for a number of pollutants will continue to increase for the next century in many developing countries.”
The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis (2009, background): “…corruption several studies have used trade openness, government size, government intervention or composite economic freedom indices as the controlled variables (Treisman (2000), Tavares and Wacziarg (2001), Chowdhury (2004), Bohara et al. (2004), Shen and Williamson (2005), Goel and Nelson (2005)).”