Mexico has undergone a peculiar transition to a democracy that in some aspects and places
still exhibits traits of the authoritarian past. The combination of authoritarian shades and …

It is often assumed that checks and balances are effective in curbing corruption, in part
because checks and balances are so often assumed to be synonymous with the separation …

The misuse of public office for private or partisan gain—political corruption, in short—is as
ancient as the art of politics itself. Its contemporary study began in the 1990s, with the public …

What explains a criminal justice system's persistent failure to prosecute a salient and
widespread criminal issue, such as systemic corruption? I argue that this results from the …

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from
1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on …

Why are politicians more likely to be prosecuted and convicted for corruption in some
contexts rather than in others? Pulling together disparate threads of the literature on what we …

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization,
based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of …

This article shows that the academic background of judges will determine the quality of their
judicial decisions. Through ordinary least squares models, this research demonstrates that …

This dissertation proposes an explanation of the variation of judicial responses to political
corruption. It asks why some judicial systems are more active than others in punishing …

ABSTRACT A prosecutorial organ is always in charge of the investigation and prosecution of
crime, which makes this institution a key gatekeeper to the courts. Empowered with …