A free press is bad news for corruption

By A. Brunetti, Beatrice Weder. 2003

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model (2009, positive): “Educated society also plays an important role as an external control on corruption in the government administration (Brunetti and Weder, 2003; Ades and Di Tella, 1999).”
One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats (2010, positive): “Last but not least, countries with a high degree of press freedom show less corruption (PRESS), which is in line with Brunetti and Weder (2003). Thus, we can conclude from our benchmark analysis that the strong positive impact of decentralization on the absence of corruption found in almost all earl”
New Evidence on the Role of the Media in Corporate Social Responsibility (2016, positive): “In a review of the most prominent measures of global press freedom, Burgess (2010) concludes that Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders (RWB, or RSF in the original French), and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) provide the most commonly cited indices.”
Media and Politics (2015, background): “As acknowledged by Brunetti and Weder (2003), the issue of causality is not fully resolved.”
Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference? (2014, methodology): “See Brunetti and Weder (2003) for detailed discussion on why OLS is the most appropriate specification.”
A Contribution to the Empirics of Press Freedom and Corruption (2007, methodology): “The objective is akin to Brunetti and Weder (2003) but also incorporates the effects of democracy on corruption.”
Using Micro-Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption (2006, methodology): “Brunetti and Weder (2003) and Ahrend (2002), for example, use a corruption perception index compiled by the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG).”
Does democracy reduce corruption? (2016, background): “…impact of democracy is conditional on income distribution and property rights protection, Saha argues that it is conditional on economic liberalization, and Stockemer studies effects on governance in African and Latin-America and in countries at different levels of development.21 Finally, our…”