Essays about: "attitudes towards corruption"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words attitudes towards corruption.

1. 1. Corruption, Gender and Accountability : A quantitative assessment of gender and attitudes towards corruption in Swedish municipalities

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Viktoria Hallmans; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender; attitudes towards corruption; accountability and risk aversion; local politicians; Sweden.;

   Abstract : Previous research has shown that there is a negative relationship between female elected officials and corruption in democracies. Especially in high accountability settings where corruption is stigmatized, it makes female elected officials more risk averse as a result of higher probability of being held accountable. READ MORE

3. 2. Female Entrepreneurship in Russia: Women Wanted!

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Nataliya Seliverstova; Aleksandra Somkova; [2018]
   Keywords : Entrepreneurship; Female Entrepreneur; Female Entrepreneurship; Female Entrepreneurship in Russia; Female Entrepreneurship Barriers; High Potential Female Entrepreneurship.;

   Abstract : Female entrepreneurship, as a subject of the academic research, has gained a lot of popularity in the recent years. A considerable amount of attention to this field has been caused by the growing recognition that female entrepreneurship has a profound impact on the economic development. READ MORE

4. 3. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Li Hedenmalm; [2018]
   Keywords : Alfred Lord Tennyson; Idylls of the King; Howard Pyle; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Victorian literature; ecocriticism; nature; wilderness; industrialism; animalisation; nostalgia; paradise;

   Abstract : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. READ MORE

5. 4. Ethnocentric favoritism ethnic polarization and corruption tolerance - evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Adnan Habibija; [2015-07-02]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Earlier research on group identity has shown mixed effects of in-group favoritism (Rachel Kranton et. al. ; Helen Bernhard, Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher 2006 ; Lorenz Goette et. al 2006 ; Yan Chen and Sherry Xin Li 2009 ; Nancy Buchan et al. READ MORE

6. 5. Governance, Politics and Corruption: An Inquiry on Electoral Corruption in Jamaica

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Olivera Bogicevic; [2012]
   Keywords : Governance; good governance; corruption; political corruption; electoral corruption; Jamaica; political tribalism; garrison politics; patron-client relationship; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis will study the notions of governance and corruption and thereby apply it to the case of Jamaica in order to understand how political corruption weakens the country´s governmental legitimacy and principles of democracy. Seeing that corruption is a symbol for the disintegration of state power, it is argued that corruption distorts development of political, social and economic institutions. READ MORE