Camila Vergara’s Systemic Corruption is an extraordinarily rich, provocative and original work of political theory, which makes several compelling interventions in the normative literature. It develops a forceful critique overly narrow definitions corruption, insisting that more ‘systemic’ conception required order to grasp scale oligarchic domination contemporary democracies. also points out l...

The paper explores a game-theoretic model of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of bureaucrats. Each entrepreneur’s project is approved if and only if it is cleared by each bureaucrat. The project value is stochastic; its value is observed only by the entrepreneur, but its distribution is common knowledge. Each bureaucrat clears the project only if a bribe is pai...

Abstract The diagnoses made to justify anticorruption measures tend minimize the complexity of phenomenon corruption. In line with garbage can model (Cohen, March, & Olsen, 1972), where solutions look for problems, corruption problem is characterized as something “addressable” by policy, which brings serious consequences, such implementation a fallible policy. article reviews fallibility po...

Abstract The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause great theoretical debate in economics. By using Structural Equation Modelling, with two types as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative variables to Latin American region test for rent seeking systemic during 1980–2018. findings provide evidence corruption, one generated by greed, other solution market ...

systematic and widespread corruption; a problem in russia’s transition period russia is among those countries that are grappled with widespread and systematic corruption in state organizations. meanwhile, different russian governments have failed to reduce the scope of corruption. this article studies nature, roots and repercussions of corruption and analyzes approaches to combat it in russia. ...

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the currently available measures are biased and too broad to test theory or guide policy. This article proposes a new composite indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich qualitative evidence on public procu...

Although the facts of weak institutional structure, inefficiency, poor professional standards, low productivity, a culture waste, over-bloated staff structure etc., have been identified as problems civil service in Nigeria, only scant attention has paid to debilitating effects corruption. This paper chronicled some annals administrative corruption, vis-à-vis., their impacts on development Niger...

Abstract How can institutional corruption be combatted? While recent years have seen a growth in anti-corruption literature, examples of countries rooting out systemic remain few. The lack success stories has sparked an academic debate about the theoretical foundations frameworks: primarily between proponents principal-agent framework and those seeing as result collective-action problems. Throu...

This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti-corruption activity undertaken in these three c...