RT Book
T1 Clarity of responsibility, accountability, and corruption
A1 Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A.
A1 Tavits, Margit
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2017
ED First paperback edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/162800617X
AB Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. A clarity of responsibility theory of corruption; 3. A dataset of democracy and corruption; 4. Clarity of responsibility and aggregate corruption perceptions; 5. Corruption voting - a survey analysis; 6. Corruption and accountability - an experimental analysis; 7. The effect of clarity on elite efforts to combat corruption; 8. Beyond anticorruption efforts - elite attention to corruption; 9. Conclusions
AB "Corruption is a significant problem for democracies throughout the world. Even the most democratic countries constantly face the threat of corruption and the consequences of it at the polls. Why are some governments more corrupt than others, even after considering cultural, social, and political characteristics? In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that clarity of responsibility is critical for reducing corruption in democracies. The authors provide a number of empirical tests of this argument, including a cross-national time-series statistical analysis to show that the higher the level of clarity the lower the perceived corruption levels. Using survey and experimental data, the authors show that clarity causes voters to punish incumbents for corruption. Preliminary tests further indicate that elites respond to these electoral incentives and are more likely to combat corruption when clarity is high"--
CN JF1525.C66
SN 9781107127647
SN 9781107566927
K1 Political corruption
K1 Demokratie : Politik : Korruption : Bekämpfung