Approaches to Corruption: a Synthesis of the Scholarship

Prasad, Monica; Silva, Mariana Borges Martins da; Nickow, Andre

doi:10.1007/s12116-018-9275-0

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“…Some studies in the literature have recognized the linkage between corruption and the health sector (Berger, 2014; Vian, 2008). This consideration also adds to the broader literature on the effects of corruption (Dimant & Tosato, 2018; Prasad, da Silva, & Nickow, 2019).…”

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Are health care scams infectious? Empirical evidence on contagion in health care fraud

Goel

2020

Manage Decis Econ

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This paper examines the presence of contagion in health care fraud across jurisdictional boundaries. Using state‐level data for the United States, we find evidence of contagion in medical fraud. There are also spillovers from border corruption on medical fraud, but no evidence of spillovers from international borders. In other findings, greater urbanization, greater elderly population, and higher hospital occupancy positively contribute to medical fraud, while nursing employment has a mitigating effect. Further, it is economic inequality rather than economic prosperity that seems relevant. The main findings are robust to consideration of simultaneity, but dependent upon the prevalence of fraud across states.

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“…The contagion effects in health scams, and the main novelty of this research is considered in adds to the broader literature on the effects of corruption (Dimant & Tosato, 2018;Prasad, da Silva, & Nickow, 2019).…”

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Are health care scams infectious? Empirical evidence on contagion in health care fraud

Goel

2020

Manage Decis Econ

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“…Moreover, determining that our sites are outliers would also have important theoretical implications. A number of scholars have identified "islands of integrity," institutions and agencies that are remarkably uncorrupt, even in societies where corruption is widespread (see Prasad et al, 2019). 30 The identification of such pockets of probity would provide a foundation for a fruitful research agenda to further address the question of why aspiring civil servants at some universities are motivated by public service ideals even as self-enrichment motivates their peers at other institutions.…”

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“…This perspective draws attention to the supply-side of corruption and the fact that corruption persists in part from private sector actors’ willingness to engage in bribery. A third interpretation is that the universities where we conducted our study are outliers, or what other scholars have referred to as “islands of integrity”—government institutions or agencies within an otherwise corrupt system where social norms of probity prevail (see discussion in Prasad et al, 2019). A final interpretation is that despite widespread corruption, the state in Putin’s Russia also pursues policies to improve the welfare of citizens and achieve geopolitical objectives (see Taylor, 2018; Treisman, 2018), which may attract some of the younger generation for idealistic reasons beyond personal enrichment.…”

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Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case

Gans-Morse

Kalgin

Klimenko

et al. 2020

Comparative Political Studies

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Drawing on experimental games and surveys conducted with students at two universities in Russia, we compare the behavioral, attitudinal, and demographic traits of students seeking public sector employment to the traits of their peers seeking jobs in the private sector. Contrary to similar studies conducted in other high-corruption contexts, such as India, we find evidence that students who prefer a public sector career display less willingness to cheat or bribe in experimental games as well as higher levels of altruism. However, disaggregating public sector career paths reveals distinctions between the federal civil service and other types of public sector employment, with federal government positions attracting students who exhibit some similarities with their peers aspiring to private sector careers. We discuss multiple interpretations consistent with our findings, each of which has implications for the creation of effective anti-corruption policies and for understanding of state capacity in contexts where corruption is widespread.

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“…The conative component of the attitude is expressed in motives and resulting affirmations, readiness to act in one way or another with an object [37]. For the attitude to bribery, the content of its conative component can be attributed to the widely studied causes [20], situational factors [26], and justification [28; 35] of corruption manifestations. We have included the factors and the justification for giving and receiving a bribe in the content of the conative component.…”

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Value-Semantic Attitude to Bribery as a Form of Grass-Roots Corruption Among Working Adults

Tigranovna¹,

Ivanovna²

2021

Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2020)

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The destructive nature of the corruption effect and the ultra-tolerant attitude of the citizens towards the grassroots of corruption has been a focus for many types of research and became a basis for this study. The study is aiming to establish the types of value-semantic attitude to bribery as a form of grass-roots corruption and originality of its components found among 216 working professionals in South of the Russian Federation. Survey (a questionnaire to assess the meaning of each component of the attitude towards bribery), analysis of the open questions in the questionnaire, testing and statistical methods are used in the work. The research considers such an attitude as a value-semantic purposeful attitude where bribery is presented as a substitution of certain needs, goals, and values. The study reveals the cognitive, emotionally evaluated, and conative components of the attitude. Based on the dominant verbal-semantic version of bribery (its subjective interpretation and functional purposes identified by the working professionals) the research designates the following types of value-semantic attitude to it: "Business economic transaction", "Instrumental value", and "Illegal act". The specific content of each component of this attitude is revealed for working professionals, depending on the type of attitude towards bribery.

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Approaches to Corruption: a Synthesis of the Scholarship

Cited by 36 publications

References 93 publications

Are health care scams infectious? Empirical evidence on contagion in health care fraud

Are health care scams infectious? Empirical evidence on contagion in health care fraud

Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case

Value-Semantic Attitude to Bribery as a Form of Grass-Roots Corruption Among Working Adults

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