The Impact of (Political) Structure on Economic Corruption

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD Candidate of Public Law, Shahid Beheshti University (Pardis branch)

2 Associate Professor of Law, Shahid Beheshti University

10.29252/jlr.2021.185503.1766

Abstract

Abstract
Economic corruption and governance approach is a matter that is overlooked within the Iranian academic literature. Though the grand/Systemic corruption is more correlated with the field of political economy. However, since the political structure of a state by which the Governance is formed and executed has a direct and dramatic impact on the formation and expansion of corruption, it should also be examined from this standpoint. The political structure of a state should be designed in a way that prevents the possibility of corruption and thus the role of public law here is substantial. It should define what characteristics should not exist in order to eliminate corruption to happen. This article is aiming at exploring and elaborating on the elements of public law in explaining the causes of economic corruption in a political system with reference to Iran.

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    tion In American Political & Economic History". Cambridge, MA 02138, 2004:51 . Also available online at http: // www.nber.org/papers/w1052

    http://www.Freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2003/methodology.htm. )

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    English

    1. A) Books

    30- Rose R., and Caryn Peiffer., Bad Governance and Corruption. School for Policy Studies. University of Bristol. 2019:34.

    32- Shleifer, A. & Robert Vishny. The Grabbing Hand. Governmen.Pathologies & their Cures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998:35.

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    35- Blankenburg  E. 2002., "From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption_ The Rise of the Scandal Industry." In Political Corruption in Transition, ed. S. Kotkin. And A. Sajo. Budapest: CEU Press. 2002: 149-166.

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    Economics 64 (1) . 2001: 74-121.

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    1. C) Electronic sources

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    tion In American Political & Economic History". Cambridge, MA 02138, 2004:51 . Also available online at http: // www.nber.org/papers/w1052

    http://www.Freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2003/methodology.htm. )

    50-

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  • Receive Date: 23 December 2020
  • Revise Date: 01 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 07 June 2021

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