The results of dissertation research "Preventing and combating corruption in public procurement" are presented in this publication. The study was conducted 2011 till 2013 in a Member State of the European Union– in the Republic of Latvia. Goal of the thesis is to explore corruption prevention and combating issues in public procurement sphere, to identify the prevalence rates, determinants and c...

There is increasing interest among health policymakers, planners and donors in how corruption affects health care access and outcomes, and what can be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Efforts to explain the risk of abuse of entrusted power for private gain have examined the links between corruption and various aspects of management, financing and governance. Behavioural scientist...

In the spring of 1989, university students, joined later by workers, civil servants and journalists, held massive demonstrations in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The demonstrators had two prominent demands—democratic reforms and an end to corruption. Despite the apparent success of the economic reform in rapidly raising the standards of living for the vast majority of Chinese, by the late 19...

Anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts and their drafts plays an important role in the anti-corruption system, as it allows to assess reduce corruption potential defects thereby prevent emergence development relations process law enforcement. The doctrinal approaches presented today specialized literature applied interpret object subject do not reveal entire cognitive these categori...

Corruption poses one of the major societal challenges of our time. Considerable advances have been made in understanding corruption on a macro level, yet the psychological antecedents of corrupt behavior remain largely unknown. In order to explain why some people engage in corruption while others do not, we explored the impact of descriptive social norms on corrupt behavior by using a novel beh...

Purpose The aim of the paper is to analyse prevalence corruption in Malaysia since 2004 relation political leadership, implementation anti-corruption measures and business culture based on money politics. Design/methodology/approach draws from information data provided by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, government, international organisations, media reports, academic papers. Findings anal...

March 2, 2006 Abstract: Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. Corruption flourished in the Suharto, pre-democracy era. This paper asks whether local democratization that occurred after Suharto reduced corruption and whether specific local politics, over and above the effects of local culture, affect corruption. We have a firm lev...

Unlike in small communities where one can strategically interact with another according to the latter’s individual reputation, players in complex societies often have to interact with strangers whose individual reputations cannot be easily acquired. They often have to infer their counterparts’ characteristics from the latters’ group reputation to simplify decision making. We provide a game theo...

Corruption is a major concern all over the world. More research should be done to identify factors that may contribute effectiveness of corruption control. The purpose this study look into impact law enforcement, incentives, and opportunities on success anti-corruption programme in Malaysian government institutions. Questionnaires were provided enforcement agencies Department A, B, C D. Based F...