Woodhouse, Eleanor Florence;
(2022)
Accountability and corruption displacement: evidence from Italy.
Journal of Public Policy
pp. 1-25.
10.1017/s0143814x22000113.
(In press).
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Abstract
One of the reasons for which corruption is so difficult to eradicate is because the actors involved are skilled in adapting their behaviour to changing institutional landscapes. However, surprisingly little is known about how corruption displacement functions across multiple levels of government. Using novel multilevel data on a political scandal in Italy and a Difference-in-Differences estimation strategy, I provide within-country evidence that a sudden increase in accountability for national deputies can impact negatively upon the behaviour of local-level public officials and politicians. In treated districts, where there is an increase in the indictment rate of national deputies, local-level corruption increases significantly as compared to nontreated districts. My results show how, in contexts characterised by systemic corruption, changes intended to enhance accountability can trigger a series of mechanisms within the political machine that exploit different levels of government.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Accountability and corruption displacement: evidence from Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0143814x22000113 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x22000113 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | accountability, corruption displacement, political appointments |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153181 |
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