In the recently-published article “Cabinets, Prime Ministers, and Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Governments in Post-War Europe” Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell, together with Staffan Lindberg, present one answer to such questions, focusing on the role of the Prime Minister in controlling high-level corruption.
The article analyses corruption across 26 West and East European democracies over the post-war period using a new dataset (Varieties of Democracy). The article has been published in the journal Political Studies.
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