Measuring Corruption: A Critical Analysis of the Existing Datasets and Their Suitability for Diachronic Transnational Research
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Corruption; Measurement; Corruption perceptions index (CPI); Control of corruption (CoC); Validity; Reliability;All these keywords.
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