The Measurement and Impact of Corruption Victimization: Survey Evidence from Latin America

By Mitchell Seligson. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Corruption as an obstacle to development in developing countries: a review of literature (2011, background): “organisations, it is an inherently difficult task to measure the involvement of these social actors (Dreher et al., 2004; Seligson, 2006; Urra, 2007; Sikka, 2008)[16], In recent years, several organisations have developed a CPI across a wide range of countries for the”
Are international databases on corruption reliable? A comparison of expert opinion surveys and household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa (2010, background): “The household surveys represent another important field of application to obtain microdata on corruption (Herrera, Razafindrakoto and Roubaud, 2007; Seligson, 2006).”
Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries (2009, background): “It is only to point out that general concerns abut a country are likely to play a significant role in responses to a question which is based on perceptions of an opaque, amorphous subject.2 Argentina’s TI CPI rank dropped precipitously from 5.2 in 1995 to 2.8 in 2002, for example (Seligson, 2005).”
Measuring and reducing the impact of corruption in infrastructure (2006, methodology): “…to be used to guide policy and investment decisions.9 As further illustration, Zimbabwe is a country that has seen a statistically significant increase in the perception of corruption over the period 1996-2004 according to the WBI control of corruption measure, for example (Kaufmann et. al., 2005).”
Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America (2008, background): “In fact, a number of theories now link corruption to slower economic growth (see Svensson 2005 for a review on the issue). In some cases, the problem is related to entrepreneurs who choose not to start or expand an activity because of the risk that potential profits will be taken away by corruption ”
On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (2014, background): “Seligson (2006) expresses a similar conclusion and writes that one should be “careful when estimating corruption on the basis of perception rather than experience since the two may not have a close fit.””
“Close but no Cigar”: the measurement of corruption* (2014, background): “Focusing on Latin American data, Seligson (2006) studied victimisation surveys designed to gather information on specific government departments or officials.”