... proposed reforms intended to reduce petty corruption can actually have the opposite effect and increase the occurrence ...
The wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, but some residents say the companies have brought with them an epidemic of corruption and intimidation.
... put forward as relevant to understand the occurrence of corruption: the extent of intrastate accountability, the extent of transparency ... . In the short run, this probably increased the incentives for corruption. In the long run, on the other hand, there have been advantages with greater ...
... . They attract more disaster relief, which makes them more corrupt." Leeson and Sobel base their conclusions on a statistical model that measured the relationship between FEMA allocations and corruption in each U.S. state. The researchers quantified ...
Sweden is to close its investigation into allegations of corruption at the heart of several of the prestigious Nobel prize science committees, a prosecutor announced Friday.
... agencies and children's book publishers are accused of corrupting nature with "incorrect designer versions" of snowflakes ...
... days, likely in large part because of corruption and resulting shoddy construction practices in the poor ... and other developing countries is due in large part to corruption in the construction industry. One of the problems is bribery, which often ...
... opinion and political participation. "Stories of political corruption are constantly in the media, and this research reveals that governmental ... that people living in a state with more convictions for felony corruption from the previous two year period had a negative ...
... -lawmaker gets 6 to 14 years for corruption By PETER JACKSON 2010-06-18T21 ...
... ruling Thursday weakens key anti-corruption legislation. Justices ruled that the law against ...
... from the journal Financial Management claims that not only does corruption exist in the corporate world, but that political connections ... more dramatically from their peers when their political links are stronger, and in more corrupt countries, although these characteristics can be observed worldwide ...
... researchers. The findings show that highlighting actual corruption is not necessarily an effective electoral strategy. "The North ... says. "The polling data show that the strategy of highlighting corruption has a marginal effect, at best. The most frequently cited ...
... officials) to fail to cooperate themselves by acting in a corrupt manner. They also considered the possibility that these law enforcers ... in formulating policies by providing insights on how to harness corruption to benefit society. In the field of psychology, the findings ...
... to the collapse of structures in devastating earthquakes as a result of corrupt building practices," said Bilham. "In this study we have attempted ... ," said Bilham. "It is in the countries that have abnormally high levels of corruption where we find most of the world's deaths from earthquakes ...
... of all deaths caused by the collapse of buildings during earthquakes occurred in countries considered to be unusually corrupt ...
