Older Papers
(1995-2000 or so)

Even older papers on the CV are probably available, many of them written on stone tablets...

Here are some older papers on corruption, development, and related topics. To download a free version of the Acrobat Reader, click here ...

More recent papers are listed first:

"The New Corruption Rankings: Implications for Analysis and Reform"
(presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Québec City, August 2000)

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"Corruption and Accountability: Building Sound Institutional Foundations for the New Global System"  (presented at a conference on "Globalization, Development, and Equity" sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000)

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"Corruption and Development: Threats to Development, Opportunities for Reform" (published in revised form as "Corruption et démocratie: menaces pour le déeveloppement, possibilités de réforme", Revue Tiers Monde (Paris) No. 161, January-March 2000, pp. 117-142.

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"Unpredictable Rules, Dishonest Competition, and Corruption:
Costs for Development and Good Governance " (presented at a conference sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and OECD, Manila, The Philippines, October 1999; published in revised form in Combating Corruption in Asian and Pacific Economies. Manila: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Asian Development Bank, 2001)

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"Party Systems, Competition, and Political Checks against Corruption" (presented, March 1999, at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy; published as a Schuman Centre Working Paper)

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"Corruption and Democratic Consolidation" (presented at a conference on
"Democracy and Corruption" sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, March, 1999)

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"Votes, Money, and Good Politics: The Ground Rules of American Political Finance"  (prepared for the task force on political finance, Centro Estudios Públicos, Santiago, Chile, October, 1998; published in revised form as "Votos, Dinero y Buena Política: Las Reglas Básicas del Financiamiento Político en Los Estados Unidos", Estudios Públicos 79 (Invierno, 2000), pp. 287-346; also appears in Salvador Valdés-Prieto (ed), Reforma de Estado, Volumen I: Financiamento Politico. Santiago, Chile: Centro Estudios Públicos, 2000. Translated by Salvador Valdés-Prieto.)

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"Cross-Border Corruption: Points of Vulnerability and Challenges for Reform"
(published in revised form as Chapter 1 (pp. 13-23) in United Nations Development Program and OECD Development Centre volume, Corruption and Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries. (New York: United Nations, 1998); originally presented, UNDP-PACT/OECD Development Centre Joint Workshop on Corruption and Integrity Improvement Initiatives, Paris, October 24- 25, 1997.)

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"Fighting Systemic Corruption: Social Foundations for Institutional Reform" (published in revised form in the European Journal of Development Research 10:1 (June, 1998), pp. 85-104; also in Mark Robinson (ed.), Corruption and Development. (London: Frank Cass, 1998), pp 85-104. )

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"The Elite Culture of Corruption in American Politics"  (prepared for a conference at the Université de Paris X, Nanterre, 1998; published in revised form in Anne Deysine and Donna Kesselman (eds.), Argent, Politique, et Corruption: Actes du Colloque. (Paris: Université Paris X - Nanterre, 1999, pp. 49-66.)

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"Corruption in China: Old Ways, New Realities, and a Troubled Future" (published in revised form as "The Vices -- and Virtues -- of Corruption", Current History, (China issue), Sept. 1997, pp. 170-174.)

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"Public Officials, Private Interests, and Sustainable Democracy: Connections between Politics and Corruption" (published in revised form in Kimberly Elliot (ed.), Corruption and the Global Economy, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997, pp. 61-82).

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"What Can Be Done about Entrenched Corruption?" (presented at the 1997 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, The World Bank, Washington DC; published in revised form in Boris Pleskovic (ed.), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1998, pp. 149-180; also appears in Robert J. Williams (ed.), The Politics of Corruption. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2001.)

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"The Search For Definitions: The Vitality of Politics and the Issue of Corruption" (published in revised form, International Social Science Journal no. 149, 1996, pp. 321-335 in the English version.)

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(With Yufan Hao, Colgate University) "Reform at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Chinese Corruption"  (published in revised form in Asian Perspective 19:1 (Spring-Summer, 1995), pp. 117-149. )

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