Gift Giving and Corruption

Graycar, Adam; Jancsics, Dávid

doi:10.1080/01900692.2016.1177833

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“…This corruption is also a trust-based reciprocal exchange, yet both parties in this "bureaucracy-to-bureaucracy" transaction exchange organizational resources instead of private or community resources (Graycar and Jancsics 2016). Formal organizations are especially keen to reduce environmental uncertainty and risk by developing interpersonal ties to other significant organizations (Schoorman, Bazerman, and Atkin 1981).…”

Section: Corrupt Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reciprocity is coordinated by network mechanisms in which informal norms of the “clan” facilitate members' activities (Ouchi ). The corrupt form of reciprocity is social bribe, a corrupt reciprocal exchange between two or more actors based on certain level of trust (Graycar and Jancsics ; Shore and Heller , 16–17). Here a corrupt agent and the client, who are socially bounded, informally exchange resources, but the gift or countergift does not come from the agent's own pocket but from the public organization where he or she is employed.…”

Section: Typology Of Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Jancsics

2019

Public Administration Review

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Despite significant investment in anticorruption instruments in the past decades, confusion about their effectiveness remains. While a growing body of scholarship claims that anticorruption reforms have generally failed, other scholars have shown that particular anticorruption tools may actually work. A likely explanation for these puzzling outcomes is that public administration research holds a mistaken view of corruption, and improperly selected anticorruption strategies often target the wrong type of corruption. To overcome this problem, this article proposes a four‐cell typology of corruption, reflecting two critical dimensions along which most corrupt behaviors occur: the resource transfer and the primary beneficiary. Synthesizing recent research developments, this article introduces a new conceptualization of corruption that integrates perspectives from several disciplines. It also offers a series of propositions concerning how each corruption type could be fought. The article concludes with implications for research and practice.

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Section: Corrupt Organizationsmentioning

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Section: Typology Of Corruptionmentioning

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Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Jancsics

2019

Public Administration Review

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“…Similarly, gift‐giving, especially to people in power, may be a socially accepted act that could elsewhere be seen as a bribe or a quid pro quo. However, in a situation of “on the spot” reaction, such as bribing traffic police, instant responses dominate the reaction and there is no future obligation of reciprocity that arises such as in a gift‐giving situation and it may be culturally neutral (Graycar and Jancsics ).…”

Section: Bribery and Moralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

To pay or not to pay: affective and cognitive response to a bribe situation

Gopinath¹,

Choudhury²

2016

Int Social Sci J

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Bribery is ubiquitous in most developing countries. The negative impact of corruption on macro variables such as economic growth and foreign investments has been widely studied. In this study, we take a micro perspective to examine the effects of bribery on the individual's emotions. We analysed two sets of post‐event self‐reports of individuals who bribed or did not bribe for government services in India to explore their cognitive and affective response. We identified the revealed basic emotions along with the justifications provided for their action when faced with a bribe situation. We find that affective response appears to dominate the reports of those who bribed, while cognitive response dominates those who did not bribe. Understanding individual emotional responses to corruption provides new avenues for researching the moral aspects of corruption and we derive implications for further research and practice.

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“…Anthropology, for its part, has a long history of studying informal political and economic exchanges and moral economies 'from below', arguing that such exchanges are inherently ambiguous cultural categories (Mauss 1954(Mauss [1925; Graycar and Jancsics 2016). The discipline's history of dealing with corruption in the formal/normative sense is less established, but the same types of issues have usually been raised: 1 what are the conditions that encourage corrupt practices to flourish, and how are such behaviours manifested and interpreted in different contexts (Haller and Shore 2005; Torsello and Venard 2016)?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘Goats eat where they are tied up’: illicit and habitual corruption in Mozambique

Tvedten

Picardo²

2018

Review of African Political Economy

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The article shows that corruption is structural and omnipresent in Mozambican society, effectively legitimising corrupt practices at all levels. Using an anthropological approach, it argues that smallscale corruption has the most immediate effects for the urban and rural poor and is so common that it has become an integrated part of daily life, or 'habitual'. While most of the poor relate to corruption through tacit acceptance and acts of compliance, its practical implications are most severe for the very poorest, who cannot afford to take part in corrupt exchanges and are excluded from vital social relationships and social services. 'Les chèvres mangent là où elles sont attachées' : corruption illicite et habituelle au Mozambique RÉSUMÉ Cet article montre que la corruption est structurelle et omniprésente dans la société mozambicaine, légitimisant efficacement les pratiques de corruption à tous niveaux. Utilisant une approche anthropologique, il avance que la corruption à petite échelle touche d'autant plus les populations pauvres, qu'elles soient urbaines ou rurales, et est si commune qu'elle est devenue une partie intégrante de la vie quotidienne, « habituelle ». Tandis que la plupart des pauvres ont un rapport à la corruption qui passe par l'acceptation tacite et divers actes de conformité, ses implications pratiques sont particulièrement sévères pour les plus pauvres qui ne peuvent pas se permettre de participer dans ces échanges de corruption et sont dont exclus des relations sociales et des services sociaux, pourtant vitaux.

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Gift Giving and Corruption

Cited by 56 publications

References 54 publications

Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

To pay or not to pay: affective and cognitive response to a bribe situation

‘Goats eat where they are tied up’: illicit and habitual corruption in Mozambique

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