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Título: | Does electronic government deter corruption? Evidence from across the world |
Autor(es): | Martins, João Veiga, Linda Gonçalves Fernandes, Bruno Emanuel Pires |
Palavras-chave: | Corruption Electronic government Governance Information Transparency |
Data: | 2021 |
Editora: | Universidade do Minho. Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE) |
Resumo(s): | Electronic government innovations are one of the most important changes in public administration in recent years. Governments in many countries have implemented e-government policies to foster efficiency and transparency, and to mitigate corruption. This paper explores the effects of e-government on corruption using longitudinal data for more than 170 countries for the period 2002-2017. Empirical results strongly support the hypothesis that e-government can be used to deter corruption. This result is robust to alternative indicators of corruption and e-government, as well as to a variety of estimation techniques. A novelty of our research is that we analyse under which conditions is e-government more effective in reducing corruption. Quantile regressions indicate that the potential of e-government to deter corruption is higher between quantiles 0.3 to 0.8 of the corruption distribution. E-government also reveals to be a more effective corruption deterrent in countries that are not classified as high-income countries and that are not in the extremes of the freedom of the press variable distribution. |
Tipo: | Documento de trabalho |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/71616 |
Versão da editora: | https://www.eeg.uminho.pt/pt/investigar/nipe/Paginas/publicacoes.aspx |
Arbitragem científica: | no |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | NIPE - Documentos de Trabalho |
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WP 2 2021.pdf | Does electronic government deter corruption? Evidence from across the world. | 1,02 MB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |