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Subject = Corruption, bribery, economic reform, economic policy, sub-Saharan Africa, Afrobarometer, public opinion, survey data;
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Displaying Results 26 - 48 of 48 on page 2 of 2
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Public investment under ethnic diversity and political uncertainty
(2009)
Bohn, Frank
Public investment under ethnic diversity and political uncertainty
(2009)
Bohn, Frank
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This paper addresses the puzzle that public services in some developing countries, especially in Africa, are poor despite large public expenditure. The intertemporal model here studies a government’s optimal choice between redistribution and public investment. Ethnic diversity and political uncertainty reinforce one another in producing myopic government behaviour which results in underinvestment. Above some critical value of political instability, it is optimal for the government not to invest at all.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1288
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Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados
(2019)
Black, Lynsey; Seal, Lizzie; Seemungal, Florence
Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados
(2019)
Black, Lynsey; Seal, Lizzie; Seemungal, Florence
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The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the nation’s death penalty law. While the focus groups reveal anxieties that echo those identified in other jurisdictions, related to nostalgia for the past and concern regarding social order for instance, they also demonstrate the specific relevance of time and place. Using approaches from Caribbean Criminology and drawing on post-colonial perspectives, the article examines the context of views on punishment in Barbados, including perceptions of ‘neo-colonial’ interference and concerns about what can be lost in the process of ‘progress’.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/14110/
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Public sector corruption and trust in the private sector
(2017)
Gillanders, Robert; Neselevska, Olga
Public sector corruption and trust in the private sector
(2017)
Gillanders, Robert; Neselevska, Olga
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In this paper we use data from the Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate that there is an undesirable spill-over from petty corruption in the public sector to trust in private sector institutions. Our results show that experiencing bribery in the course of one’s interactions with the public sector lowers one’s trust in big private corporations, small businesses, and local traders. This finding holds even when we allow for perceptions of political corruption to enter the specification. We do not find any significant association between a measure of interpersonal trust and bribery experience which suggests that our findings with regards to market institutions are not driven by corruption lowering trust in general. Having to pay a bribe for household services, which is perhaps the setting most like a private sector transaction, is the corrupt interaction most strongly associated with the decline in private sector trust. We find some evidence that the spill-over is larger in democracies ...
http://doras.dcu.ie/22326/
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Shelter in place? Depends on the place: corruption and social distancing in American states
(2020)
Dincer, Oguzhan; Gillanders, Robert
Shelter in place? Depends on the place: corruption and social distancing in American states
(2020)
Dincer, Oguzhan; Gillanders, Robert
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We investigate the links between corruption and compliance with social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic in America. Both theory and empirical evidence point to a corrosive effect of corruption on trust/social capital which in turn determine people's behavior towards compliance with public health policies. Using data from 50 states we find that people who live in more corrupt states are less likely to comply with so called shelter in place/stay at home orders. Our results are robust to different measures of corruption.
http://doras.dcu.ie/25328/
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State ownership and corruption
(2016)
Billon, Steve; Gillanders, Robert
State ownership and corruption
(2016)
Billon, Steve; Gillanders, Robert
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We test two interesting results that can be obtained from a simplified version of the theoretical model of Shleifer and Vishny (1994) that studies bargaining between politicians and managers of state-owned firms. The model suggests that firms with more state ownership tend to pay less in bribes but not have a different experience of costly obstacles imposed on them by politicians. In our full sample, the results suggest that a one percent increase in state ownership is associated with a $125 reduction in the total annual informal payment of the firm and with a 0.5% decrease in the probability that a firm will consider corruption to be an obstacle to their current operations. We refine these average relationships by splitting the sample by global region. Only in our Europe and Central Asia sample do we find strong evidence in support of the first result and again we find a significant effect of state ownership on obstacles.
http://doras.dcu.ie/22335/
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Stretching the IR theoretical spectrum on Irish neutrality: a critical social constructivist framework
(2008)
Devine, Karen
Stretching the IR theoretical spectrum on Irish neutrality: a critical social constructivist framework
(2008)
Devine, Karen
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In a 2006 International Political Science Review article, entitled "Choosing to Go It Alone: Irish Neutrality in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective," Neal G. Jesse argues that Irish neutrality is best understood through a neoliberal rather than a neorealist international relations theory framework. This article posits an alternative "critical social constructivist" framework for understanding Irish neutrality. The first part of the article considers the differences between neoliberalism and social constructivism and argues why critical social constructivism's emphasis on beliefs, identity, and the agency of the public in foreign policy are key factors explaining Irish neutrality today. Using public opinion data, the second part of the article tests whether national identity, independence, ethnocentrism, attitudes to Northern Ireland, and efficacy are factors driving public support for Irish neutrality. The results show that public attitudes to Irish neu...
http://doras.dcu.ie/609/
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The effects of foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016)
Gillanders, Robert
The effects of foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016)
Gillanders, Robert
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This paper contributes to the aid effectiveness debate by applying a vector autoregression model to a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries. This method avoids the need for instrumental variables and allows one to analyse the effect of foreign aid on human development and on economic development simultaneously. The full sample results indicate a small increase in economic growth following a fairly substantial aid shock. The size of the effect puts the result somewhere between the arguments of aid optimists and those of aid pessimists. Human development, for which I use the growth rate of life expectancy as a proxy, responds positively to aid shocks in democracies.
http://doras.dcu.ie/22336/
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The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction
(2012)
Walsh, Brendan M.
The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction
(2012)
Walsh, Brendan M.
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Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance and institutional quality on average levels of self-assessed well-being in the countries of the enlarged European Union between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower inflation. However, even when these factors are allowed for, significant country-level differences persist.
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ti, ke, ab - 10.04.12
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3720
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The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
(2013)
STONE, PETER
The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
(2013)
STONE, PETER
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Proponents of random selection in politics have identified at least eight potential contributions that the practice can make to the political process. These are: descriptive representation, prevention of corruption and/or domination, mitigation of elite-level conflict, control of political outliers, distributive justice, participation, rotation, and psychological benefits. We argue that random selection makes its strongest contribution when it selects citizens to function as impartial guardians of the political system. This means selecting citizens at random, not to make policy or enact laws, but to protect the integrity of the political process?by making and enforcing legislative ethics standards, for example. Random selection?s strongest contribution is to the prevention of corruption and/or domination; the fact that it enables descriptive representation, while undeniably true, is less important to politics.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67327
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The mental health cost of corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
(2012)
Gillanders, Robert
The mental health cost of corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
(2012)
Gillanders, Robert
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This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual’s mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically meaningful effect in both binary and ordered probit models using both an experience of corruption index and a simple binary variable. Having to pay a bribe to obtain documents and permits, to avoid problems with the police or to access medical care emerge as the arenas in which corruption can have a damaging effect on mental health. Some evidence is presented that an individual needs to experience such corruption more than ‘once or twice’ for this effect to become evident.
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Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ti, sp, ab - kpw5/12/11
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3680
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Whistle-blowing and the employment relations implications of the ‘protected disclosures act 2014’ in the republic of ireland
(2018)
Halpin, Lisa; Dundon, Tony
Whistle-blowing and the employment relations implications of the ‘protected disclosures act 2014’ in the republic of ireland
(2018)
Halpin, Lisa; Dundon, Tony
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This article explores the introduction of the 2014 Protected Disclosures Act in the Republic of Ireland. It does so by using a justice theory lens to examine the potential for the Act to protect workers who may feel the need to blow the whistle on employer wrongdoings. Data is collected from public records and documents, along with interviews with senior representatives from 'all' the social partner agents involved in drafting or contributing to the Act. The evidence suggests that the Act may have limited utility in ensuring fairness and justice for the whistle-blower. In particular, employers appear reluctant to embrace the idea of more legal protections, while cultural stigmas attached to the idea of 'blowing the whistle' may inhibit people coming forward. The article contributes to justice theory and employment regulation, as well as whistle-blowing practices, and some recommendations are suggested to improve awareness of whistle-blowing rights for workers.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/11799
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White Elephants and the Limits to Efficient Investment
(2015)
Bohn, Frank
White Elephants and the Limits to Efficient Investment
(2015)
Bohn, Frank
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This paper studies a policymaker’s optimal choice between redistribution and efficient public investment. Under political instability, there is myopic government behavior which results in underinvestment. Above some critical value of political instability, it is optimal not to invest at all. This finding also suggests that it may be rational for governments to refrain from anti-corruption investment, even if they are not rent-seeking themselves.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6369
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Women's representation in national parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ideational framework for investigation
(2005)
Connolly, Eileen
Women's representation in national parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ideational framework for investigation
(2005)
Connolly, Eileen
http://doras.dcu.ie/2128/
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