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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Danube-University Krems
2013-05-01
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| Series: | JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government |
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| Online Access: | https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/140 |
| Summary: | 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 results, and then some empirical evidences in favor of the hypotheses that E-government mechanisms are negatively associated with improbities in Brazilian local government. |
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| ISSN: | 2075-9517 |