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Role of democracy in corruption

Conventional wisdom suggests that democracy is a powerful tool in reducing corruption.

Mature democracies, or what we colloquially refer to as the ‘West’, have lower levels of corruption than new democracies. A further inspection of this relationship between democracy and corruption suggests that there is an inverted 'U' relationship between the two.

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