A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption

Escresa, Laarni ; Lucio, Picci

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: CORRUPTION;    STATISTICS;    CORRUPTION INDEX;    PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;    PUBLIC OFFICIALS;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhv031

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and perception-based measures, considers the extent to which differences between them are driven by systematic factors, and concludes that they are not. As more data on cases of cross-border bribery incidents become available, the PACI will provide an increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption.