Yolsuzluk, demokrasi ve kalkınma: Ampirik bir analiz

Corruption is widely considered to have a negative impact on economic growth as well as on democratic governance. The present study revisits the relationship between corruption, economic growth, and democracy by addressing the following questions: (i) What is the effect of corruption on a country's economic growth? (ii) What kind of an effect does corruption have on a country's democracy? (iii) Which types of democratic institutional mechanisms can pose constraints on corruption? By employing data from Corruption Perception Index of the Transparency International and Varieties of Democracy datasets, I present a quantitative analysis of corruption, democracy, and growth among 170 countries for the period of 1995-2015. The evidence suggests that corruption does not have a negative effect on economic growth while it affects democracy negatively in middle-income countries. In addition, I find that high court independence and transparency of rule-making process and predictable enforcement of these rules appear as the two democratic institutional features that can restrict corruption most in a given country.