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Working
Paper Series:
06.09
Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis
Raaj Sah
http://www.harrisschool.uchicago.edu/faculty/web-pages/raaj-sah.asp
Abstract:
Large and persistent differences in corruption across comparable countries
is a challenging research issue. Even more intriguing are such differences
across regions within the same country, because the typicallyconsidered
socioeconomic and governance characteristics are generally
more similar across such regions than across different countries.
This paper’s principal theme is that individuals’ perceptions of their
environments are influenced by the realities that they have faced in the
past; these perceptions affect their current and future actions; which in
turn influence the current and future realities. An articulation and analysis
of these dynamics yields significant observations concerning individuals’
behavior and societal outcomes.
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