Bhattacharyya, Sambit and Hodler, Roland (2015) Media freedom and democracy in the fight against corruption. European Journal of Political Economy, 39. pp. 13-24. ISSN 0176-2680
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Abstract
Democratization and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the fight against political corruption, but so far their interplay in this fight has received scant attention. We present a game theoretic model which allows for varying quality of media freedom and democratic
institutions. The model predicts, among others, that democratization and media freedom are complements in the fight against political corruption. We test our theoretical predictions using differences-in-differences estimations and panel data covering 129 countries from 1980 to 2007. We find evidence of causal effects of democratization and media freedom on corruption,and that the two are complements. Our main results hold after controlling for income, country fixed effects, and continent-specific time-varying shocks.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > Economics |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic theory. Demography > HB0071 Economics as a science. Relation to other subjects |
Depositing User: | Sambit Bhattacharyya |
Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2015 08:21 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2019 22:20 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53637 |
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