Caruana-Galizia, Paul and Caruana-Galizia, Matthew (2018) Political land corruption: evidence from Malta-the European Union's smallest member state. Journal of Public Policy, 38 (4). pp. 419-453. ISSN 0143-814X
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Political corruption in the land sector is pervasive, but difficult to document and effectively prosecute. This article provides new evidence on political land corruption in Malta, the European Union's smallest member state and one of the world's most densely populated countries. It shows how the country's highly restrictive zoning laws, along with a de jure independent regulator, have created opportunities for extensive and endemic corruption in the granting of land development permits in zones that are outside development. It provides an example of governments creating institutions as rent-collection instruments-not to correct market failures, but to create opportunities for corruption. The unique underlying data set was collected through an automated web-scraping program as the regulator first turned down then ignored freedom of information requests for the data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2017 Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2019 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2024 05:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100388 |
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