@article{2017,title={CENTRALIZATION OF CANDIDATE SELECTION FOR LEGISLATIVE BODIES AND CORRUPTION},abstractNode={In this paper, I analyze whether candidate selection by political parties has an effect on pervasiveness of corruption. I argue that without knowing how those candidates introduced to voters are determined, our knowledge on the effects of electoral rules on corruption will remain incomplete. Thus, all other things being equal, I hypothesize that corruption should be positively associated with centralized decision making as opposed to decentralized decision making in candidate selection process. To test the validity of this argument, I use a cross sectional analysis covering 31 countries with 69 political parties in government between 1995 and 2005. The empirical findings strongly support my hypothesis that centralized processes of candidate selection are associated with higher levels of corruption.},author={İmran DEMİR},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}