Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Artikel

This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) ; ISSN: 2254-7088 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 106-122 ; A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Political Corruption ; Transparency ; Local Government.

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jiménez, Juan Luis ; Albalate, Daniel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universidade da Coruña
• (where): A Coruña
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.17979/ejge.2018.7.2.4509
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/217769
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET