Corruption in Latin America: Political, Economic, Structural, and Institutional Causes

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  • March 20, 2019
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  • Biddle, Lauren
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
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  • This work examines the causes of corruption in eighteen Latin American countries from 1994 to 2005. With Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index as the dependent variable, this study utilizes a pooled cross-sectional times series design to link corruption levels with a number of explanatory variables. There is evidence that economic development, inequality, trade, structural reforms index, democracy, federal structure, and ethno-linguistic fractionalization have significant effects on corruption. However, resource exports, age of democracy, and public sector size do not appear to affect corruption levels. This investigation draws on previous research on corruption but differs through having an exclusively Latin American focus and through its use of a time series design.
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  • October 19, 2010

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