Why Civil Society Cannot Battle it All Alone: The Roles of Civil Society Environment, Transparent Laws and Quality of Public Administration in Political Corruption Mitigation

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institutionalism as anoverarching theory, and the nascent literature on civil-society corruption nexus, the paper looks atthe predictive capacity of civil society environment, transparency of laws and predictability ofenforcement, and rigorousness and impartiality of public administration in political corruption.