Nigeria's police force is in a developmental phase as it moves away from a traditionally tribal, corrupt, disorganized, and localized operation toward a higher level of professionalism. Accordingly, Sutherland's social disorganization theory, which posits that criminal behavior …
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This descriptive study explored the perceptions of Nigerian police officers regarding the widespread bribery and corruption in the Nigeria Police Force. Input from police officers documenting their attitudes, perceptions of the problem and its causes, and their suggested remedie…
Previous research has demonstrated the mismanagement of resources by military and civilian governments in Nigeria prior to and following independence, thus creating a perceived lack of trust in government. The purpose of the study was to examine perceptions of corruption and con…
Corruption has recently become one of the most discussed topics in policy and scholarly debates. An extensive body of research, conducted over the last decade, demonstrates that corruption has a negative impact on development, competitiveness, investment climate and the allocati…
The dissertation consists of three essays in applied economics. The first essay, Decentralizing Development. Allocating Public Goods via Competition , analyzes a World Bank attempt to overcome a lack of local accountability in community driven development programs by having Indo…
This study examines the impact of petty corruption experiences on the approval of government using survey data from over 24,000 respondents in Afghanistan and a recently developed matching method. The analysis demonstrates a fundamental difference between bribing public official…
I conduct three studies to assess the impact of anti-corruption policies on individual behavior. In my first essay, I ask why identical policies have differential impacts across cultures. I implement bribery in the laboratory as a repeated three-player sequential game, consistin…