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This article presents findings from a 2018 survey of news reporters assessing illegal and legal corruption in US states. The survey reveals varying levels of corruption across different states and government branches, highlighting concerns about judicial corruption and election practices.

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Measuring Illegal and Legal Corruption in American States: Some Results from 2018 Corruption in America Survey
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This article presents findings from a 2018 survey of news reporters assessing illegal and legal corruption in US states. The survey reveals varying levels of corruption across different states and government branches, highlighting concerns about judicial corruption and election practices.
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    "parsed_content": "\u201cIn 2014, we started surveying news reporters covering state politics in addition to the investigative reporters covering issues related to corruption to construct perception-based indices measuring two specific forms of corruption across American states: illegal and legal. The first two waves of the Corruption in America Survey were hosted by Harvard Law School\u2019s\u00a0Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Starting from this year the survey will be hosted by the newly founded Institute for Corruption Studies which is an independent research institute within the Department of Economics at the Illinois State University.\u201d\n \n \n \n \n \n \nMeasuring Illegal and Legal Corruption in American States:\nSome Results from 2018\u00a0Corruption in America Survey\nBy Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston\nWe started surveying news reporters covering state politics in addition to the investigative reporters covering issues related to corruption in 2014, to construct perception-based indices measuring two specific forms of corruption across American states: illegal and legal. In the second half of 2018, we conducted the fifth wave of the Corruption in America Survey. We contacted close to 1,000 reporters via email\/phone. We received a total of 240 responses. Unfortunately, in some states (Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, and New Hampshire) we have a small number of responses partly due to small number of reporters covering state politics. Hence, while interpreting the results from these states we should be cautious. We received no responses from North Dakota.\u200b\nIn our survey, we define illegal corruption as the private gains in the form of cash or gifts by a government official, in exchange for providing specific benefits to private individuals or groups. It is the form of corruption that attracts a great deal of public attention. A second form of corruption, however, is becoming more and more common in America: legal corruption. We define legal corruption as the political gains in the form of campaign contributions or endorsements by a government official, in exchange for providing specific benefits to private individuals or groups, be it by explicit or implicit understanding. We asked reporters how common were these two forms of corruption in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government in 2017 in the state they cover in their reporting. The response scale ranged from \u201cnot at all common\u201d to \u201cextremely common.\u201d For each reporter responding to the survey, we assigned a score of 1 if he\/she chose \u201cnot at all common,\u201d 2 if he\/she chose \u201cslightly common,\u201d and so on. The score of 5 meant that the reporter responding to the survey perceived corruption to be \u201cextremely common.\u201d We then calculated the state scores as the median of these individual scores, which are presented in the tables and maps below (darker color indicates higher corruption).\nSurveys such as ours have several weaknesses, particularly when it comes to measuring activities such as corruption. Reporters\u2019 perceptions are not the same thing as direct evidence of corruption itself. They might be affected by how cynical reporters are towards politics and leading personalities. Moreover, their ideological beliefs might also affect their perceptions. Finally, corruption scandals of the recent past, and beliefs about leading personalities in those events, might very well affect the reporters\u2019 corruption perceptions of today.\u00a0That is why the perception scores should not be conceptualized as a measure of corruption as such, but rather as a diffuse reflection of it. We could, by analogy, think of light reflected off an uneven surface: we would not expect the clarity of a mirror image, but might still be able to judge attributes such as brightness or color, as well as significant\u00a0trends in both. While we would naturally refrain from over-interpreting such a reflection, we would still be gaining information.\nIllegal Corruption in America\nExcept for Arkansas and Kentucky, in none of the states\u00a0is illegal corruption in government perceived to be more than \u201cvery common\u201d in any of the governmental branches. In both states legislative branches score higher than 4.\u00a0It is nevertheless \u201cmoderately common\u201d and\/or \u201cvery common\u201d in both the executive and legislative branches in a significant number of states, including the usual suspects such as Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York. Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi are perceived to be the most corrupt states with executive, legislative, and judicial branches all scoring 3 or higher. Iowa and Oregon are perceived to be the least corrupt states with all three government branches scoring lower than 2.\nExecutive Branch\nIn more than ten states executive branches score 3 or higher in illegal corruption. In none of the states is illegal corruption in the executive branch perceived to be \u201cextremely common\u201d by the reporters. It is, on the other hand, perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d in Kentucky and New York.\n \nLegislative Branch\nState legislators are perceived to be more corrupt than the members of the executive branches in a number of states. In almost half of the states, legislative branches score 3 or higher in illegal corruption.\u00a0In Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New York, illegal corruption in state legislatures is perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d or \u201cextremely common\u201d.\n \nJudicial Branch\nNo states score 4 or higher in illegal corruption in judiciary. Nevertheless, even a score of 2 is still worrying since it is the judicial branch of the government that is expected to try government officials charged with corruption. In Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia illegal corruption in the judiciary is perceived to be moderately common. Both the executive and legislative branches in Arkansas Louisiana, and Mississippi are also perceived to be corrupt with the scores of 3 and higher.\n \nLegal Corruption in America\nLegal corruption is perceived to be more common than illegal corruption in all branches of government. Executive and legislative branches score 4 or higher in legal corruption in more than 10 states.\u00a0In Kentucky legal corruption is perceived to be \u201cextremely common\u201d, not only in the executive branch but also in legislative branch. In two states, legal corruption in the judicial branch is perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d or more. Louisiana scores 4 or higher in legal corruption in all branches of government.\nExecutive Branch\nIn a significant number of states, legal corruption in executive branches is perceived to be more \u201cvery common\u201d or more. Kentucky and New York, for example, suffer from not only illegal corruption but also legal corruption. Executive branches in these states score 4 or higher in both forms of corruption.\u00a0In Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, and Wisconsin, while illegal corruption in the executive branches is perceived to be \u201cslightly common\u201d or less, legal corruption is perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d or more.\n \nLegislative Branch\nLegal corruption in the legislative branch is particularly worrying in almost all states. In more than half of the states, it is perceived to be either \u201cvery common\u201d or \u201cextremely common.\u201d Only in Kansas, Maine, and Montana do legislative branches score less than 3. Alaska, California, Oregon, and Wisconsin suffer from only legal corruption, while Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New York in which legal corruption is perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d or \u201cextremely common\u201d, suffer from both forms of corruption.\n \nJudicial Branch\nLegal corruption in the judicial branch is more common than illegal corruption. Legal corruption in the judiciary is perceived to be \u201cmoderately common\u201d or more than ten states. In Louisiana and West Virginia it is perceived to be \u201cvery common\u201d.\u00a0While in Louisiana judges are elected via partisan elections, in West Virginia they are elected via non-partisan elections. Judicial branches in all of the states which elect their judges via elections (partisan or non-partisan), score a 3 or higher.\u00a0The majority of the states in which legal corruption in the judicial branch is perceived be \u201cnot at all common\u201d elect their judges via merit selection. These findings should be of particular concern to citizens and officials alike, as in theory we expect our courts to rise above the day-to-day pressures and expectations of politics. That they apparently do not, raises serious questions about the ways judges are elected in many states, how their campaigns are financed, and whether conflicts of interest arise as those who contribute to judicial campaigns are allowed to appear before those same judges as cases are tried.\n \nAggregating the Results: Most and least Corrupt States\n\u00a0\nWhat are the most and least corrupt states, taking all three government branches into account? Although there is always some information lost in aggregation, which is particularly important in the measurement of corruption, it is still an important question. We simply add the median scores of each government branch and calculate the aggregate score of a state. The table below presents the states whose aggregate scores are in the highest (i.e., most corrupt) and lowest (i.e., least corrupt) quartiles.\n \nWith respect to illegal corruption, Arkansas and Kentucky are perceived to be the most corrupt states, followed by Louisiana and New York, and some other usual suspects such as Alabama and New Jersey. Iowa is perceived to be the least corrupt state, followed by Oregon, Connecticut, Alaska, Missouri and Minnesota.\u00a0With respect to legal corruption, Kentucky, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Georgia and Texas are perceived to be the most corrupt states followed by Arkansas, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Montana and Washington are the least corrupt states followed by Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont and Virginia.\nIt is all bad news for such states as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York as\u00a0their aggregate scores are in the highest quartiles of both illegal and legal corruption. Not so bad news for Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota and Vermont which are perceived to be least corrupt both illegally and legally. The map below presents the aggregate corruption scores of each state (bigger circle indicates higher illegal corruption while darker color indicates higher legal corruption).\n \nThese findings are broadly consistent with a number of comparative assessments of state corruption over the years, suggesting that the extent of corruption in state governments is not just a matter of contemporary personalities and events, but is rather a result of deeper and more lasting characteristics and influences.\nOguzhan Dincer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Illinois State University and the Director of the Institute for Corruption Studies. He can be contacted at odincer@ilstu.edu.\nMichael Johnston is Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Colgate University (Emeritus) and the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Corruption Studies. He can be contacted at mjohnston@colgate.edu.\n \nData\nExcel CSV ASCII",
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β€œIn 2014, we started surveying news reporters covering state politics in addition to the investigative reporters covering issues related to corruption to construct perception-based indices measuring two specific forms of corruption across American states: illegal and legal. The first two waves of the Corruption in America Survey were hosted by Harvard Law School’sΒ Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Starting from this year the survey will be hosted by the newly founded Institute for Corruption Studies which is an independent research institute within the Department of Economics at the Illinois State University.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
Measuring Illegal and Legal Corruption in American States:
Some Results from 2018Β Corruption in America Survey
By Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston
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