Improving the enforcement of rules is clearly the best way to combat corruption. The introduction of eGovernment can play a major role in this context as it automates several processes. However, in the case of post-communist transitioning countries such as Armenia, the challenges are unique. These countries are struggling with the transformation of their legacy bureaucratic and administrative p...

corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (mukum, 2008).administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.in other words, there is no country in the world that has note...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses how the quality of governance, the size of public spending, and economic development affect the relationship between bureaucratic corruption and economic growth. The analysis shows that the interaction between corruption and governance shapes the efficiency of public spending, which in turn, determines the growth effects of corruption. Specifically, cor...

"Dissecting Bioethics," edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics. The section is dedicated to the idea that words defined by bioethicists and others should not be allowed to imprison people’s actual concerns, emotions, and thoughts. Papers that expose the many meanings of a concept, describe the different readings o...

Many acts are disgusting, but only some of these acts are immoral. Dyadic morality predicts that disgusting acts should be judged as immoral to the extent that they seem harmful. Consistent with this prediction, 3 studies reveal that perceived harm mediates the link between feelings of disgust and moral condemnation-even for ostensibly harmless "purity" violations. In many cases, accounting for...

one of the best ways to encountering administrative corruption is identifying the factors of its emersion, prevalence and control. this paper aims to determine and prioritize those mentioned factors in educational system. research results showed that economic conditions of educational personnel have most important impact on tendency to commit corruption. also, administrative and managerial mech...

In this chapter I present some preliminary results on the nature of corruption and countervailing action in Pakistan, drawing on data extracted from newspapers. Once it is recognized that corruption creates losers as well as winners, some dramatic implications for the theory of corruption emerge. This leads to an analysis of the countervailing action taken by losers to offset their losses from ...

Corruption is an important economic variable but one that is extremely difficult to measure. As a result, researchers have resorted to using perception indexes as a proxy for true corruption. Recent studies suggest that perception measures are inaccurate, and have encouraged the use of methodologies that can measure fact-based corruption – corruption that actually takes place. In this paper, we...