Author: Jens Chr.1 Andvig / Topic: Corruption

Author:: Tiberius Barasa and Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 01-2012
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: This paper presents and analyzes most empirical research about crime and police corruption in Kenya that has been based on vicitimization statistics. It shows the wide variation in outcomes and draws implications of this for the potential use of this approach for police and crime policy. This is used as a background for the researcher's own victimization study which combines this information with a survey of police officers' attitudes and experiences. In a more theoretical section it discuss how officer rotation, crime registration procedures and citizen mobility controls may work when crime policies are considered as a set of collective action games where both police officers and community members are engaged.
Topic:: Corruption, Crime, and Law Enforcement
Political Geography:: Kenya and Africa

Author:: Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 10-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: The paper seeks to explain state failures. To do so, we focus on non-market forms of interactions in the public sector that allow officials to move into high or low effort levels, a kind of state tendency to bipolarity or manic depression. The activity level actually 'chosen' will have important consequences for the overall non-state economy. The paper outlines reasons why low effort and high corruption levels are likely to go together and increase the risks for possible rise in violent conflicts. It further describes mechanisms that show how non-formal institutions may impact corruption, state activity levels and possible economic gains from joining violent rebellion.
Topic:: Corruption, Markets, and Fragile/Failed State

Author:: Jens Chr.1 Andvig and Gbewopo Attila
Publication Date:: 03-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: Recently economists have begun to study various aspects of public sector institutions (with their behavioral neighborhoods) and their effects on the long run economic development. Degrees of corruption, rule of law and protection of property rights have all apparently significant economic impact. These results are all based on the construction of indicators for these difficult-to-observe explanatory variable complexes. In most cases the indicators applied have been developed for most countries and have on the one hand 'nice' statistical properties when embedded in regression equations, but on the other hand are conceptually fuzzy with unclear relationships to basic observations. In this paper we go through many of the same relationships, but based on international efforts to collect questionnaire information about citizens' experience with crime and police corruption. This information is more conceptually distinct and likely to be more closely related to relevant experience, but proves on the other hand less amenable to econometric analysis. Despite the latter weakness we have found it worthwhile to pursue it in order to complement the indicator- based approaches.
Topic:: Corruption, Crime, Economics, and Law

Author:: Odd Helge Fjeldstad and Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 07-2008
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: The paper examines (i) how and why corruption may arise in the daily routines of the police and whether it may have impacts on crime rates; (ii) empirical indications of whether the police may be more corrupt than other groups of public officials; (iii) how and why police corruption may vary across countries; and (iv) the wider impacts of police corruption on development.
Topic:: Corruption, Crime, Government, and Poverty

Author:: Jens Chr.1 Andvig
Publication Date:: 05-2006
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract:: The international aspects of corruption have received considerable attention in both research and policy: What determines whether a country is highly corrupt or not? Most research has sought to answer this question by considering each country as reflecting the same kind of mechanism explaining both the high and low outcomes. In this paper some of the theoretical explanations suggested in the literature are reviewed at the same time as it suggests how the question needs to be rephrased if each country's corruption rate is influenced by an internationally open economic system.
Topic:: International Relations, Corruption, Economics, and International Political Economy

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