Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government

By Alícia Adserà, C. Boix, Mark Payne. 2003

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What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research? (2007, background): “Along similar lines, Adsera et al. (2003) include a variable measuring the “free circulation of daily newspapers,” constructed by interacting a measure of democratic liberties with a measure of newspaper circulation.”
The effect of foreign aid on corruption: A quantile regression approach (2012, background): “In spite of its importance, foreign aid may also have impact on the quality of governance, particularly corruption, in the recipient countries.(1) This impact has been examined in many studies, yielding mixed results.”
A Contribution to the Empirics of Press Freedom and Corruption (2007, methodology): “To give an example: the variables that have received most attention as determinants of corruption in the literature are British colonial heritage, uninterrupted democracy, Protestant religion, electoral rule, and fiscal decentralization (see for example, Ades and Di Tella, 1999; La Porta et al., 199”
Corruption in America (2006, result): “These findings are consistent with the analysis of Adsera et al. (2003), who find that convictions are negatively associated with measures of social capital and political participation.”