Mar 13, 2013

Soviet legacies and corruption

. . . [E]ven twenty years after the collapse of the USSR, regions with a higher share of Communist Party members in the 1970s have substantially higher corruption.
From the paper "Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies" (Economic Letters, Libman & Obydenkova, April 2013). A draft is here (January 2013).

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