Question: About 100 countries and what else was information gathered from to show that more people reading newspapers had higher political accountability?
Answer: different states in the US.

Question: Who discovered the correlation that congressman who have less local press coverage work less for the people who elected them?
Answer: Snyder and Strömberg

Question: What newspaper stopped publishing in 2007?
Answer: Cincinnati Post

Question: Who was most likely to get reelected after the Post shut down?
Answer: incumbents

Question: Campaign spending and what fell after the Post stopped publishing?
Answer: voter turnout

Question: What did the analysis show mixed results for?
Answer: growth of the Internet

Question: What was disrupted by Internet growth for the press?
Answer: traditional sources of funding

Question: How much has new types of Internet journalism replaced what has been lost in the press?
Answer: a tiny fraction

Question: How many measures does Transparency International publish right now?
Answer: three

Question: What is the measure that Transparency International publishes that looks at the willingness of a foreign company to pay a bribe?
Answer: Bribe Payers Index

Question: What is the measure that it publishes that involves polling to determine the public's take on how corrupt various countries are?
Answer: CPI

Question: When was the CPI first released?
Answer: 1995

Question: Which index studies the correlation of corruption and military in a country?
Answer: Government Defence Anti-corruption Index

Question: How many firms throughout the world have been surveyed by the World Bank in regards to its corruption study?
Answer: over 100,000

Question: How many dimensions of governance are measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators?
Answer: six

Question: One of the dimensions is the extent to which power is exercised for personal gain, which is called what?
Answer: Control of Corruption

Question: Which organization is most notable for adopting the global coverage of these studies?
Answer: Millennium Challenge Corporation

Question: A second set of corruption metrics has been compiled by Global Integrity and what other organization?
Answer: International Budget Partnership

Question: When was the Global Integrity Index first published?
Answer: 2004

Question: Both companies no longer use what means of collecting of data?
Answer: public surveys

Question: Instead of public surveys, the organizations use what to study corruption?
Answer: in-country experts

Question: The second wave of metrics focuses on what level of corruption?
Answer: local

Question: Unlike the first wave, the second wave does not offer what type of coverage?
Answer: worldwide

Question: What is the British aid agency's research called?
Answer: Drivers of Change

Question: What does Drivers of Change skip?
Answer: numbers

Question: What does Drivers of Change promote?
Answer: understanding corruption

Question: Public spending has risks of kickbacks, embezzlement and what?
Answer: cronyism

Question: What type of regulations make corruption worse for public spending?
Answer: Complicated

Question: The potential for corruption in public spending are one of the arguments that favor what?
Answer: privatization and deregulation

Question: What countries have big public sectors but low corruption?
Answer: Nordic

Question: What do the low corruption countries have solidly established?
Answer: rule of law

Question: Selling government property is highly at risk for what?
Answer: cronyism

Question: What type of people got wealthy from the sale of state-owned companies?
Answer: Those with political connections

Question: Where is corruption even more prevalent?
Answer: non-privatized sectors

Question: Countries that what have more extralegal and unofficial things going on?
Answer: privatized less

Question: Providing a government service from the lowest form of local government that can adequately provide the service is called what?
Answer: principle of subsidiarity

Question: What does distributing money into multiple instances discourage?
Answer: embezzlement

Question: Even small amounts of public money can be a lot in what type of authority?
Answer: centralized

Question: What is it called when higher ups in government embezzle from the government's treasury?
Answer: kleptocracy

Question: What examples of natural resources do some corrupt officials in government take?
Answer: diamonds and oil

Question: Some corrupt governments use what type of money coming in?
Answer: foreign aid

Question: Foreign aid money is sometimes used to build fancy structures and to buy what?
Answer: armaments

Question: In their pursuit of more money and power, corrupt dictators often ignore what?
Answer: economic and social problems

Question: Who was the dictator in Zaire from 1965 to 1997?
Answer: Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko

Question: What did Zaire used to be known as?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question: What term became more popular as Mobutu ruled?
Answer: kleptocracy

Question: Who ruled Nigeria until he died in 1998?
Answer: General Sani Abacha

Question: What magazine had articles about Castro benefiting from corruption?
Answer: Forbes

Question: The $900 million Forbes said Castro took may only be what of his total assets?
Answer: a portion

Question: What is Fidel Castro's official title?
Answer: General Secretary of the Republic of Cuba

Question: What is OAS?
Answer: Organization of American States

Question: Additional conventions were adopted at the regional level by OAS and who?
Answer: the African Union

Question: What organization joined at the universal level?
Answer: the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Question: When did the United Nations Convention against Corruption join?
Answer: 2003

Question: Why is it difficult to measure corruption?
Answer: imprecise definitions of corruption

Question: When did indices on corruption first appear?
Answer: 1995

Question: What was the first index on corruption, in 1995?
Answer: the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI

Question: How many methods of judiciary corruption are there?
Answer: two

Question: What part of the government controls the judiciary budget in many developing countries?
Answer: executive

Question: What does executive branch control over judiciary money undermine?
Answer: separation of powers

Question: What type of corruption is hard to get rid of even in developed countries?
Answer: judiciary

Question: Radio broadcasts and what help deter corruption?
Answer: Mobile telecommunications

Question: What country is used as an example for limited forms of communications?
Answer: Africa

Question: Who works against corruption in India?
Answer: the anti-corruption bureau

Question: What new ombudsman bill is being readied in India?
Answer: Jan Lokpal Bill

Question: What decade saw international initiatives to combat corruption?
Answer: 1990s

Question: Who started the Programme of Action?
Answer: Ministers of the Council of Europe

Question: What did the Programme of Action issue?
Answer: a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments

Question: What does GRECO stand for?
Answer: Group of States Against Corruption

Question: What is the name of the French equivalent of GRECO?
Answer: Groupe d'Etats contre la corruption

Question: The instruments used to point out the different corrupt forms looked to see if they were rigidly domestic or what?
Answer: transnational

Question: What language is the word dialectus from?
Answer: Latin

Question: From what language does the word diálektos come?
Answer: Greek

Question: What does diálektos mean in English?
Answer: discourse

Question: How many different types of linguistic phenomena is the term dialect used to describe?
Answer: two

Question: How many distinct ways is the term dialect used?
Answer: two