Natural resources, democracy and corruption

Corruption, competition and democracy

This paper presents a model of the interaction between corrupt government officials and industrial firms to show that corruption is antithetical to competition. It is hypothesized that a government agent that controls access to a formal market has a self-interest in demanding a bribe payment that serves to limit the number of firms. This corrupt official will also be subject to a detection tech...

" Natural Resources, Development and Democracy: the Quest for Mechanisms "

The correlation between natural resource abundance, authoritarianism and poor developmental outcomes—typically referred to as the resource curse—is one of the few findings in comparative politics and political economy on which there is something approaching a scholarly consensus. That the case, there is widespread disagreement as to the causal mechanisms underpinning the correlation. Indeed, we...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Parliamentary Immunity: Protecting Democracy or Protecting Corruption?*

ARECURRING question within contemporary democratic countries relates to whether parliamentary immunity only serves to protect the interests of representatives, rather than the interests of those they were elected to represent. With every act that is suspected of being corrupt (for example, accepting a bribe in return for asking a question or delivering a speech in parliament, failure to declare...

Political Stability, Corruption, Democracy and Terrorism In the Middle East and North Africa

Terrorism has been considered as a challenge with serious effect in the world as a result of instability, corruption and lack of democracy in most countries. Confronting this phenomenon requires recognizing its roots to find possible solutions. This study aims to examine the effect of some actual factors which causes the terrorism in short and long run. To this end, investigation has been condu...