Corruption Risks Indicators

Data source: Fazekas and Kocsis

Description:

Measuring high-level corruption is subject to extensive scholarly and policy interest, which has achieved moderate progress in the last decade. This dataset presents four objective proxy measures of high-level corruption in public procurement: single bidding in competitive markets, the share of contracts with no published call for tender'' red flag, the share of contracts withnon-open procedure'' red flag, and share of contracts with ``tax haven'' red flag.

Using official government data on 4 million contracts in thirty-two European countries from 2011 to 2021, the authors directly operationalize a common definition of corruption: unjustified restriction of access to public contracts to favour a selected bidder.

Corruption indicators are calculated at the contract level, but produce aggregate indices consistent with well-established country-level indicators, and are also validated by micro-level tests.

Last updated by source: 2023-01-25

Citation:

    @article{cri1,
 author = {Fazekas, Mihaly and Gabor Kocsis},
 doi = {doi:10.1017/S0007123417000461},
 journal = {British Journal of Political Science},
 number = {1},
 pages = {1--10},
 title = {Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data},
 volume = {50},
 year = {2020}
}


    

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