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Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Abstract
We study cultural norms and legal enforcement in controlling corruption by analyzing the parking behavior of United Nations officials in Manhattan. Until 2002, diplomatic immunity protected UN diplomats from parking enforcement actions, so diplomats’ actions were constrained by cultural norms alone. We find a strong effect of corruption norms: diplomats from high‐corruption countries (on the basis of existing survey‐based indices) accumulated significantly more unpaid parking violations. In 2002, enforcement authorities acquired the right to confiscate diplomatic license plates of violators. Unpaid violations dropped sharply in response. Cultural norms and (particularly in this context) legal enforcement are both important determinants of corruption.
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- Authors
- Fisman, R., & Miguel, E.
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1020-1048
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
- OpenAlex
- W1952934792
- Cited by
- 1,090
- References
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- FWCI
- 81.29
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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