Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State Governments

By James E. Alt, David Dreyer Lassen. 2007

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Citations in the corpus

• Regulatory Capture: A Review (2006, unknown): “Alt and Lassen (2005) find evidence that the selection method for state Supreme Court members in the United States matters to the corruption levels prevailing in the state.”
• US political corruption and firm financial policies (2016, methodology): “The second survey measure is the perceptions-based measure from Boylan and Long (2003), used in Alt and Lassen (2008), among others. In a survey, Boylan and Long (2003) asked state house reporters to rate their state’s corruption on a scale from one (not corrupt) to seven (very corrupt).”
• Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States (2013, unknown): “We use this sample of years to keep comparability with the existing literature ( e.g., Glaeser and Saks 2006, Alt and Lassen 2008 .”