Many Bolivians engage in corruption through intermediaries, like civil society representatives and lawyers, instead of paying officials directly. People vocally resent that intermediaries add an extra layer costs opaqueness to but still choose pay bribes knowingly take advantage them. Why do facilitate corruption? While other studies on corrupt find they reduce uncertainty transaction costs, th...

Although the government has made strides in the fight against traditional organized crime, new nontraditional organized crime groups have emerged alongside enduring forms of racketeering such as bribery and extortion. The field of organized crime groups has expanded to include new nontraditional, transnational groups from Asia and Eastern Europe among others, in addition to traditional groups l...

This chapter summarizes the theoretical and empirical literature on attitudes toward bribery and then proceeds to examine the opinions of 1,483 Brazilians on the issue, using the data from the most recent World Values Survey. The study finds that although Brazilians are strongly opposed to bribe-taking in general their opposition is less than absolute in many cases. An examination of some demog...

Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, demonstrate that bribing for public services worsens self-assessed health. We account endogeneity of bribery and show any type service, not just health services, has an adverse impact. also find lowers the quality received. Moreover, there are potentia...

Abstract At issue in the SNC-Lavalin scandal was a new tool of corporate criminal law: remediation agreements. Introduced 2018, agreements allow diversion and create an alternative to prosecution corporations suspected wrongdoing. This article examines why federal government adopted chose this particular tool. Drawing on wide-ranging documentary record, I argue that reform product transnational...

We study strategic voting problems for majority judgment, in which each voter assigns to every candidate a grade and the winners are determined by their majority-grades. We first study the constructive/destructive control by adding/deleting votes/candidates problems. Then we study the bribery problem, where an external agent wants to change the result by asking a limited number of voters to cha...

A self-presentational analysis of the forced compliance setting focuses on the predicament-creating aspects of Counterattitudinal actions and on the types of accounting tactics people use to excuse or justify events that threaten their identities before real or imagined audiences. The social meaning of monetary payments that are offered for the performance of Counterattitudinal actions should a...

We study the control complexity of fallback voting. Like manipulation and bribery, electoral control describes ways of changing the outcome of an election; unlike manipulation or bribery attempts, control actions—such as adding/deleting/partitioning either candidates or voters— modify the participative structure of an election. Via such actions one can try to either make a favorite candidate wi...

This paper is concerned with the computational aspects of approval voting and some of its variants, with a particular focus on the complexity of problems that model various ways of tampering with the outcome of an election: manipulation, control, and bribery. For example, in control settings, the election’s chair seeks to alter the outcome of an election via control actions such as adding/delet...