Local Political Corruption: Potential Structural Malfunctions at the Central-Local, Local-Local and Intra-Local Levels
Despite growing preoccupation on the part of both the public and researchers with the concept of political corruption and the orruption eruption. phenomenon, research studies addressing corruption in the local government are few and far between. This exploratory research offers a theoretical conceptualization of institutionalized corruption in local government, and identifies structural factors that lead to such corruption. Further, the study empirically assesses institutional corruption at the local level and its correlation to attitudes and characteristics of local authorities and their populations, based on a survey of 1,709 residents of 156 local authorities in Israel and data on the local authorities from a separate database. The article proposes a model according to which local corruption arises from structural factors at three levels: the central-local level (relations between local authorities and the central government); the local-local level (competition between local authorities); and the intra-local level (factors relating to the performance of local councils and local leadership). Our analyses reveal correlations among characteristics of the local authority and community, residents perceptions of local performance, and perceptions of local corruption. Implications of the findings in light of strategies conventionally employed against corruption in local government are discussed.
Itai Beeri Doron Navot
国际会议
上海
英文
1-38
2012-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）