NDLI: Political Corruption and Institutional Stability

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Author	Fjelde, Hanne Hegre, Håvard
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This article is the first to statistically examine the reciprocal relationship between formal political institutions and political corruption. We argue that political corruption is an informal institution that allows nondemocratic leaders to build political support, act as a substitute for liberalizing concessions in the formal institutions of the state, and thereby extends the longevity of non-democratic regimes. Yet, whereas high corruption level will prevail in nondemocratic regimes, we expect the electoral constituency in democratic regimes to have the formal power to curb political corruption. We demonstrate that these expectations hold by estimating a dynamic multinomial regression model on data for 133 countries for the 1985–2008 period. Our model shows that high-corruption autocracies and hybrid regimes are more stable than their low-corruption counterparts, but that low-corruption democracies are more stable than high-corruption ones. For autocratic and hybrid regimes, the stability is due both to corruption making the formal institutions more resistant to democratization and that the formal institutions prevent reductions in corruption. Consistent democracies, on the other hand, are able to reduce corruption and become more stable as a result.
Starting Page	267
Ending Page	299
Page Count	33
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393606
Journal	Studies in Comparative International Development
Volume Number	49
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	19366167
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-06-03
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Corruption Regime type Institutional stability Regime change Informal institutions Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Development

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