Henderson, J. Vernon 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0985-9415 and Kuncoro, Ari
(2011)
Corruption and local democratization in Indonesia: the role of Islamic parties.
Journal of Development Economics, 94 (2).
pp. 164-180.
ISSN 0304-3878
Abstract
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. This paper examines whether corruption is affected by local democratization and by the party composition of local assemblies. Democratization occurred in 1999 and decentralization in 2001. We have firm-level data for 2001 and 2004. The 2001 data benchmark corruption at the time of decentralization. We find that corruption declines between 2001 and 2004 overall, but much less so in districts with more secular party as opposed to Islamic party representatives in district assemblies. For a larger sample of districts, correspondingly, we find that corruption in 2004 is more in districts which voted more in favor of secular party representatives in the first elections in 1999. We argue that the effects seem to be causal, over above any effects of changing religiosity and economic circumstances across districts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Elsevier B.V. |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2013 09:18 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2024 08:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52094 |
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