Is Transparency an Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

By Leonid Peisakhin, P. Pinto. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The institutional, economic and social determinants of local government transparency (2013, background): “In addition, improving transparency to reduce corruption has been the focus of a broad literature (Blumkin and Gradstein, 2002; Lindstedt and Naurin, 2010; Peisakhin and Pinto, 2010; among others).”
• Corruption in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “Peisakhin and Pinto (2010) examine this by conducting a randomized experiment to test whether freedom-of-information laws can improve access to basic public goods that are otherwise attainable only through bribery. The experiment randomly assigned individual applicants in India to one of three mecha”
• Why do anti-corruption laws fail in Central Eastern Europe? A target compliance perspective (2012, background): “Particularly in the EU context, implementation is typically studied in terms of transposition, that is, the adoption of laws, not in terms of change on the ground (Treib 2008). Even in domestic implementation studies, the focus tends to be on the state apparatus, whether on high-level decision-maker”
• Citizens and Service Delivery: Assessing the Use of Social Accountability Approaches in Human Development Sectors (2011, background): “HD human development HEPS Health Promotion and Social Development (Uganda) HNP health, nutrition, and population HSNP Hunger Safety Net Programme (Kenya) IFAI Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información Pública (Mexico) xvi Abbreviations IPAR Institute of Policy Analysis and Research MASAF Malawi S”
• Sunshine as Disinfectant: The Effect of State Freedom of Information Act Laws on Public Corruption (2014, background): “Most of the literature investigating governmental transparency and corruption has lauded transparency (see, e.g., Klitgaard (1988), Rose-Ackerman (1999), Brunetti and Weder (2003), Peisakhin and Pinto (2010), Peisakhin (2012)).”