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DESPITE DIFFERENCES IN ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL DIS- cussions about corruption/anticorruption that align with ideological positions, the previous chapter revealed many similarities in the policies of a select group of left and right governments in the region. This chapter peers a bit further by looking into the outcome of those efforts, asking simply if there is an empirically verifiable difference among left and right governments in terms of their success or failure at fighting corruption. While the chapter strives to see what available data might tell us, unfortunately, gauging corruption-and hence answering this research question-is fraught with challenges, ranging from the normal issues of validity, reliability, and precision to the lack of metrics for some countries and years. This renders tentative the analysis and the conclusions. Still, the empirical exploration offers insights.Empirical analyses of changes in the levels of corruption over time generally pale in comparison to the multitude of cross-national studies examining the causes and consequences of corruption. Among the few that exist, none has addressed the question posed here. Kaufmann et al. (2009, 35; cited in Geph

Publisher

Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published

2022

Language

EN