Abstract (may include machine translation)
Measuring high-level corruption is subject to extensive scholarly and policy interest, which has achieved moderate progress in the last decade. This article develops two objective proxy measures of high-level corruption in public procurement: single bidding in competitive markets and a composite score of tendering 'red flags'. Using official government data on 2.8 million contracts in twenty-eight European countries in 2009-14, we directly operationalize a common definition of corruption: unjustified restriction of access to public contracts to favour a selected bidder. Corruption indicators are calculated at the contract level, but produce aggregate indices consistent with well-established country-level indicators, and are also validated by micro-level tests. Data are published at http://digiwhist.eu/resources/data/.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 155-164 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | British Journal of Political Science |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- CRI
- European Union
- corruption
- measurement
- public procurement