Institutions, Gender and Corruption Relations: Panel VAR Analysis on Central and Eastern Europe Countries

Abstract

Corruption is the abuse of public office for private gains by indivudials or groups. It is discussed in the current literature that women and men have behavioural patterns related to their gender and these patterns’ can affect their tendency towards corruption. The aim of this study is to seek a gender-and corruption relation in Central and Eastern European Countries where there was a high level of corruption during socialist regimes accompanied with the sustaining imression of past institutions. The study applied panel VAR (vector autoregressive) analysis to examine women’s empowerment and the representation of women in parliament and liberal democratic institutions, and their linkages with corruption. As a result of the analysis, even if Granger causality is not found between gender and corruption in Central and Eastern European countries, findings support relations between liberal democratic institutions and corruption.  

Keywords

• Corrupion
• Gender
• Institutions
• Panel data
• VAR models

Kurumlar, Cinsiyet ve Yolsuzluk İlişkisi: Merkezi ve Doğu Avrupa Ülkeleri Üzerine Panel VAR Analizi

Öz

Yolsuzluk, özel çıkarlar elde etmek için kamu makamlarının bir birey veya grup tarafından suiistimal edilmesidir. Literatürde kadın ve erkeklerin cinsiyetlerine özgü davranış kalıplarına sahip olduğu ve bu davranış kalıplarının yolsuzluk yapmaya eğilimi etkilediği tartışılmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı sosyalist yönetim döneminde yolsuzluğun yüksek düzeylere eriştiği ve rejim değişimi sonrası geçmiş kurumların etkisinin sürdüğü Merkezi ve Doğu Avrupa ülkelerinde liberal demokratik kurumlar, cinsiyet ve yolsuzluk arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektedir. Çalışmada kadınların güçlendirilmesi, parlamentodaki kadınların temsil oranı ve liberal demokratik kurumların kamudaki yolsuzlukla ilişkisi panel VAR analizi araştırılmıştır. Analiz neticesinde Merkezi ve Doğu Avrupa ülkelerinde cinsiyet ve yolsuzluk arasında Granger nedensellik bulunamazken, bulgular liberal demokratik kurumlarla yolsuzluklar arasında ilişki olduğunu desteklemektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yolsuzluk
• Kurumlar
• Cinsiyet
• Panel Veri
• VAR modeli

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