Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns ∗ Johannes Wachsa, , Taha Yasserib,c , Bal´azs Lengyeld,e , and J´anos Kert´esza,f a Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary b Oxford Internet Institute,...
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Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns ∗ Johannes Wachsa, , Taha Yasserib,c , Bal´azs Lengyeld,e , and J´anos Kert´esza,f a Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary b Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS, UK c Alan Turing Institute, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK d Agglomeration and Social Networks Lend¨ ulet Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1097 arXiv:1810.05485v1 [cs.SI] 12 Oct 2018 Budapest, Hungary e International Business School Budapest, H-1037 Budapest, Hungary f Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary October 15, 2018 Abstract Corruption is a social plague: gains accrue to small groups, while its costs are borne by everyone. Significant variation in its level between and within countries suggests a relationship between social structure and the prevalence of corruption, yet, large scale empirical studies
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