A free press is bad news for corruption

被引：553

作者：

Brunetti, A

Weder, B ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Mainz, D-6500 Mainz, Germany

[2] State Secretariat Econ Affairs, Bern, Basel, Switzerland

来源：

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 2003年 / 87卷 / 7-8期

关键词：

corruption; press freedom;

D O I：

10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00186-4

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper tests the proposition that a free press may be a powerful control on corruption. We find evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries. This result is robust to specification and sample and the relationship is not sensitive to the choice of a particular measure of corruption or of press freedom. Furthermore we present evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corruption. (C) 2002 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：1801 / 1824

页数：24

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