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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Corruption; Democracy; Missing Data; Causal; Multilevel Model;Structiral Equation Model
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Corruption And Democratic Performance, Levente Littvay
Corruption And Democratic Performance, Levente Littvay
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation introduces new quantitative methods to comparative politics. These include an approximately unbiased missing data treatment, a first order autoregressive multilevel model for the analysis of cross-sectional longitudinal data, approaches for the separation of cross-sectional and longitudinal predictor effects to identify aggregation bias and a model for the empirical analysis of causal direction. Methods are demonstrated on a model replicating past research on the causes of corruption adding democratic performance as a predictor, than a new model of democratic performance is developed to test Warren’s theoretical propositions that corruption is by nature undemocratic, and finally the causal direction between …