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    <dc:publisher>Economics: The Open-Access, Open Assessment E-Journal</dc:publisher>
    <dc:publisher>http://www.economics-ejournal.org</dc:publisher>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>

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<dc:creator>Claudio Weber Abramo</dc:creator>
<dc:title>How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?</dc:title>
<dc:date>2008-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:description>Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption
Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a
good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In
contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among
themselves. However, no consistent relationship between opinions about general effects
and the assessments of the extent with which corruption affects the institutions where
presumably corruption is materialized is found. Countries are sharply divided between
those above and below the US$ 10,000 GDP per capita line in the relationships between
variables concerning corruption. Among richer countries, opinions about institutions
explain very well opinions concerning certain effects of corruption, while among poorer
countries the explanatory power of institutions for the effects of corruption falls.
Furthermore, tests for dependence applied between the variables in the sets of respondents
for each of 60 countries also show that, for most of them, it is likely that experience does not
explain perceptions. On the other hand, opinions tend to closely follow the trend of other
opinions. Additionally, it is found that in the GCB opinions about general effects of
corruption are strongly correlated with opinions about other issues. The correlation is so
strong as to justify the hypothesis that it would suffice to measure the average opinion of the
general public about human rights, violence etc. to accurately infer what would be the
average opinion about least petty and grand corruption. The findings reported here
challenge the value of perceptions of corruption as indications of the actual incidence of
the phenomenon.</dc:description>
<dc:identifier>http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2008-3</dc:identifier>
<dc:subject>JEL D73</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>JEL H11</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>JEL K42</dc:subject>


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