Knowledge of official ethical standards and tolerance towards corruption: An exploratory study

Corruption is often defined as a deviant conduct from established legal and formal norms expected ways of behaving in the exercise official duties discharge responsibilities. Readiness to tolerate corruption will hinge primarily upon evaluator’s understanding what those ethical standards are. This means that citizens’ willingness accept something “normal” functioning democracy or “beneficial” economic development likely be affected by how knowledgeable they are about governing public office. Such knowledge can instilled academic experiential learning. So, we question extent affect their tolerance towards corruption? Based on new individual level data collected six focus groups conducted Portugal, show possible negative association between appropriate corruption. The results exploratory, but sufficiently interesting test our hypothesis with larger sample.