Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?
This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related...
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| description | This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b3b8cd10672a41a48977a832e8f563572022-12-21T19:09:07ZengUniversity of A CorunaEuropean Journal of Government and Economics2254-70882018-12-017210.17979/ejge.2018.7.2.4509Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?Juan Luis Jiménez0Daniel Albalate1Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaUniversitat de BarcelonaThis paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption.http://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/4509Political CorruptionTransparencyLocal Government |
| spellingShingle | Juan Luis Jiménez Daniel Albalate Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? European Journal of Government and Economics Political Corruption Transparency Local Government |
| title | Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? |
| title_full | Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? |
| title_fullStr | Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? |
| title_short | Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide? |
| title_sort | transparency and local government corruption what does lack of transparency hide |
| topic | Political Corruption Transparency Local Government |
| url | http://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/4509 |
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