One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats

World Development

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 631-646

  Lessmann, Christian ^a   Markwardt, Gunther ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

corruption; decentralization; freedom of press; monitoring

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CORRUPTION; DECENTRALIZATION; MASS MEDIA; MONITORING; POLICY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77049122964     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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