Do political power shifts reduce corruption in Korean local governments?

Autor:	Moonsoo Lee, Hyunhoe Bae
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations
Zdroj:	Japanese Journal of Political Science. 23:350-362
ISSN:	1474-0060 1468-1099
Popis:	Previous studies have discussed the effects of electoral competition on corruption, but only a few explored the effects of political power shifts – the results of electoral competition. To fill the gap, this study tests hypotheses that three types of political power shifts (the shifts of individual local government heads, local government ruling party, and local council majority) reduce the corruption (overall, external, and internal), with a panel data set of 226 Korean local governments. The empirical study shows that only shifts in the local government head reduce internal corruption. The other dependent and independent variables do not have any significant relationships. This can be because of structural matters of Korean local politics such as strong mayor-weak council and the closed local elite networks.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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