Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

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Title:	Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?
Author:	Jiménez González, Juan Luis; Albalate, Daniel, 1980-
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption
Subject(s):	-Transparència política -Corrupció política -Administració local -Transparency in government -Political corruption -Local government
Rights:	cc-by-nc (c) Jiménez González, Juan Luis et al., 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es
Document type:	Article Article - Published version
Published by:	Universidade da Coruña
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