Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298250 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/059
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Despite a growing literature on the determinants of corruption, existing studies are sparse on the channels through which social media curbs corruption using panel data. Social media is captured by the percentages of the population and elites that use social media for offline political actions (OPA). This research uses annual data from a panel of 47 African countries over the period 2000-2018. Results show that social media used by the population for OPA directly curbs executive, judicial and legislative corruption. The use of social media by elites for OPA boosts corruption in the judicial sector. Moreover, social media indirectly curbs corruption through their effects on civil society participation. Reducing corruption in Africa requires inter alia, policies aimed at promoting the use of social media for OPA, the emergence of dynamic and effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy.
Subjects: 
social media
executive corruption
judicial corruption
legislative corruption
democracy
civil society
JEL: 
G20
O38
O40
O55
P37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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