The relationship between corruption and democratic performance has always
been a key question for political economists. It is important in terms of understanding
the incentives that may improve quality of life in less developed
countries. In the past, studies of this relationship have suffered from a lack of
analytical sophistication, failed to extract all available information from the
data, and assumed causal direction without empirical testing. No previous
study has utilized nearly all countries of the world across a large time span.
This book goes deeper by overcoming these analytical...