“…The reciprocal democracy-corruption nexus has already been analyzed in several studies and is nowadays well-established (Kolstad, I., &Wiig, A., 2016;Kubbe, I., 2015;Montinola, G. R., & Jackman, R. W., 2002;Olteanu, T., 2012;Rock, M. T., 2009;Sung, H.-E., 2004;Warren, M. E., 2004). Previous research shows that democracy does not guarantee clean and transparent governance at all and democratic systems are still fighting against corruption (Ferrin, M., 2016;McMann, K. M., et al, 2017;Seldadyo, H., & De Haan, J., 2011;Shen, C., 2005;Uslaner, E. M., & Rothstein, B., 2016), even in countries that are often seen as almost free of corruption.…”