The Impact of Public Transparency in Fighting Corruption

This paper is an attempt to shed light on the causes of corruption through empirical analysis of the impact of public transparency mechanisms on the frequency of improbities in Brazilian municipalities. First, we have presented a new model of corrupt agent´s utility function to better explain the re...

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Main Author: James Batista Vieira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Danube-University Krems 2013-05-01
Series:JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government
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Online Access:https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/140