What is the relation between economic freedom and corruption?
Aditi Kumar
1. Problem statement: Documenting the relation between “economic freedom” and “corruption”
1.1. Literature review of the papers on “economic freedom”; assessment/ comparison of the different parameters set by various theorists.
1.2. Literature review of papers on “corruption”; assessment/ comparison of the parameters
1.3. Relation between Transparency International’s corruption index and Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index
1.4. A state-wise comparison of the correlation between the two variables, in India. (?)
2. Null hypothesis: Correlation coefficient ‘r’ is not significantly different from zero. (?)
3. Research Method
3.1. Literature review
3.2. Secondary data
3.3. Qualitative and quantitative
4. Constraints
4.1. Resources: Access to published articles and books
4.2. Interviews with people with different perspectives (theoretical).
5. Evaluating Progress
5.1. Expected timeline:
5.1.1. End of Week 3: Finish literature review.
5.1.2. End of Week 4: Finish compiling the state-wise data
5.1.3. End of Week 5: First draft of the paper
5.2. Risk factors: The constraints mentioned above.
5.3. Plan B: Might have to purchase papers online.
6. Outputs
6.1. Research paper/ background paper
6.2. Oped
1. Clear-cut project I think
2. Tip: literature review is not a collection of past papers, but a paper which compares and contrasts studies to show why different authors reached different conclusions
3. Think about why you are doing this project? What is the bigger question? Have a look why other authors look at the relation between economic freedom and corruption.
4. I can get you published article, no worries
5. Do update PoA as we go
Great luck