Corruption continues despite abundant government legislation, public protests, and an overwhelming consensus that it threatens modern liberal institutions, hard-earned global prosperity, human rights, and justice. While we understand corruption better than the ancients, the puzzle of why it remains a timeless societal vice remains unsolved. This book addresses that puzzle by challenging assumptions about individual behavior and bureaucratic design. It analyzes corruption in three of India's major state bureaucracies. The book argues that corruption is organized into grand and petty forms, rather than being uniform. Several markets for grand and petty corruption exist within bureaucracies, linked to and driven by the market for grand corruption in bureaucratic transfers controlled by politicians. The nature, strength, and stability of these linkages explain the persistence of corruption and why top-down approaches fail. The book offers an original account of corruption's 'sticky' nature and proposes an agenda for reform.
Abstract This article analyzes anti-corruption policy and political dynamics in Greece without treating corruption as an objective condition or perception indices as neutral measures of wrongdoing. It focuses on the extensive legislative reforms and oversight bodies established over the past three decades and their lim...
Effi P. Lambropoulou· Monatsschrift für Kriminolog...· 0 citations
At the encouragement of various international bodies, including the OECD, World Bank, and IMF, countries throughout the Global North have introduced measures in recent decades to address corruption across public and private domains. Many, however, have found it difficult to hold offending parties to account. To examine...
Laureen Snider, Steven Bittle, Jasmine Hébert· Laws· 0 citations
Discontent at British politics is driven not just by the persistent cost‐of‐living crisis, but also by a widespread sense of political corruption. This is liable to benefit the far right, whose anti‐system message resonates with substantial numbers of voters. But there is a structural tension at the heart of British...
The article critically discusses the tensions between political power, institutional independence and the persistence of corruption by examining the historic development of several anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia and the problems faced by Indonesia’s anti-corruption agencies in fighting corruption. Using quali...
Ahmad Khoirul Umam, M. A. Khan· Frontiers in Political Scien...· 0 citations
In an effort to diminish the pervasive nature of corruption and to lower its prevalence, South Africa has instituted a range of anti-corruptioninitiatives, strategies, and legislative frameworks within the nation. All these measures and frameworks exhibit a thorough and systematicapproach. While it is essential to enga...
F. Khan, R. Kolevsohn· The Strategic Review for Sou...· 0 citations
Legal corruption, also known as institutional corruption, has become prevalent in the public sector, but empirical research on this subject is still at a nascent stage. Given its potentially detrimental impact on the perceived level of organizational capacity among internal members, understanding civil servants' view...
Kee-Hoon Chung, Don S. Lee, Soonae Park· Regulation & Governance· 0 citations
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