What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?

By D. Treisman. 2007

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Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works (2018, neutral): “…to break out of disciplinary silos, with economists writing primarily to economists (Svensson 2005; Olken & Pande 2012); political scientists to political scientists (Treisman 2007); sociologists to sociologists (Heath et al. 2016); and anthropologists to anthropologists (Torsello & Vendard 2016).”
Global corruption and the shadow economy: spatial aspects (2014, background): “8Unlike corruption perceptions indices from Transparency International and the World Bank (2013), the ICRG index possesses useful time series properties (Seldadyo and de Haan 2006; Treisman 2007).”
Is Transparency an Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (2010, background): “Treisman concludes that more“experience-based measures of corruption”are necessary to advance the state of the field (Treisman 2007, p. 213).”
Measures of corruption and determinants of US corruption (2011, methodology): “Given the body of recent literature on the causes of corruption, some scholars are beginning to turn attention to the evaluation of corruption measures themselves (Sampford et al. 2006; Treisman 2007; Williams and Siddique 2008).”
Corruption, Institutions, and Economic Development (2009, background): “Treisman (2007) has thoroughly investigated the relationship between and the determinants of the two types of indices.”
Understanding Off-the-Books Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys (2010, background): “Work on this topic has produced a number of intense debates about how the phenomenon should be measured, with various scholars drawing the conclusion that the most commonly utilized measures of corruption, perception-based indicators available at the cross-national level, are not up to the task of e”
Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change (2010, background): “Corruption can be seen as a key outcome variable reflecting all institutional weaknesses in the economy, as it results from weak property rights, arbitrariness in state administration, weak judicial system, excessive and nontransparent regulatory frameworks but also prevailing social norms and (self”
Does bribery in the home country promote or dampen firm exports (2013, background): “Defined as instances where public officials (mis)use their authority (Treisman, 2007: 211), government corruption refers to circumstances where officials demand money for their own benefit rather than the state’s purposes.”
Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries (2011, background): “[48] Treisman, Daniel, “What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of CrossNational Empirical Research?” Annual Review of Political Science, 2007, 10: 211-244.”
How to Measure Integrity Violations (2011, background): “2002 ; Lambsdorff 2005 ; Lewis and Gilman 2005 ; Menzel 2005 ; Cooper 2006 ; Lawton and Doig 2006 ; Treisman 2007 ; Huberts et al.”