Enabling the Red Queen effect from Accountability: Evidence on corruption control

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Regarding the relationship among governance outcomes, this paper aims to verify if the results of voice and accountability had significant change and the control of corruption maintained after the Arab Spring. The literature review on public administration, economics, and political sciences stated that the rule of law should impact accountability. In turn, accountability should control corruption. The Arab Spring period occurred in synergy with the global governance movement and should explain the maintenance of corruption control. This investigation is a quantitative regression study based on multivariate panel data of nine years covering 198 countries and 1,782 observations. The paper’s main contribution is that the accountability’s advances active the Red Queen effect to keep corruption controlled. After the Arab Spring period, accountability advanced in the world because of the global governance movement. Governmental accountability practitioners’ actions should increase disclosing information, consistent reports, objective communications, and independent audits to ensure citizen engagement.