People power and anti-corruption; demystifying citizen-centred approaches

Verdenicci, Serena; Hough, Dan

doi:10.1007/s10611-015-9585-3

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“…2. In fact, this is perhaps one of the main shortcomings of any citizen-centered approach to combat corruption (see, e.g., Verdenicci and Hough 2015). See also Marquette andPeiffer 2015 andAlatas 1999.…”

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Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Bauhr

2016

Governance

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This article calls into question one of the implicit assumptions linking democratic accountability to reduced corruption, namely, that citizens will expose institutions rife with venality and mobilize for better government. Instead, mobilization may be contingent on the type of corruption. The study develops a distinction between need and greed corruption and suggest that citizens are more likely to engage in the fight against corruption when corruption is needed to gain access to “fair” treatment (need corruption) as opposed to special illicit advantages (greed corruption). Using data from the Global Corruption Barometer 2013, the study suggest that need corruption mobilizes citizens, in particular if they perceive that fellow citizens will also engage, while greed corruption leads to secrecy, demobilization, and a propensity to “free ride” on other citizens’ anticorruption efforts. The study thereby contributes to a better understanding of fundamental conditions for collective action against corruption and explaining why greed corruption persists in societies with well‐established institutions for accountability.

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Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Bauhr

2016

Governance

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“…Fox (2015) arguing that bottom-up collective approach on many occasions lacks information, monitoring often lacks bite due to local elite influence and official approach capture by local elites. Similarly, Verdenicci and Hough (2015) also found that these citizen-centered approach easily lose their direction due to coordination and greatly influenced by elite capture. All these problems of bottom-up approach on many occasions directed towards catastrophe.…”

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Bottom-Up Anti-Corruption Approach

Sakib

2020

Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Home-grown initiatives of preventing corruption; Localism in anti-corruption; Social accountability Defining Bottom-Up Anti-Corruption Approach The bottom-up approach of anti-corruption can be defined as a process of preventing corruption from the community level through active participation from the citizens while public officials or corrupt syndicate is involved in wrongdoing. The term often is also known as localism, community engagement, spontaneous participation, or home-grown initiatives in preventing corruption. Participatory budgeting in South and North America can be cited as a textbook example of the bottom-up approach of anti-corruption where local people involved in public policymaking to ensure proper use of public money in their locality. Early Development of the Bottom-Up Approach of Anti-Corruption The top-down approach of anti-corruption suggests that preventing corruption or anticorruption measures taken from the central authority. This is more like a principal-agent relationship where the principal will monitor his agents and punish while caught in wrongdoing (Klitgaard 1988). However, the traditional topdown approach does not have potential success as the principal cannot monitor them due to complex bureaucratic paradox (Berman 1978). Therefore, in top-down approach public officials or assign authority likely to involved in corrupt practice as there is a lack of obligatory accountability measures. Often, they all are involved in an organized syndicate to manipulate the system. Consequently, public officials demand a bribe, delaying service, harass citizens, nepotism, favouritism, and so on. However, in the 1970s and early 1980s, a quite different approach emerged in response to the apparent feebleness of the "top-down" perception. Driven by new public management (NPM), bottom-up approach rather focusing on problem issues avoiding various policy stages like formulation, implantation (Sabatier 1986). The concept further developed by novel laureate Amartya Sen and Elinor Ostrom arguing poor and marginalized people needs bottom-up solution to empower their rights. Ostrom (1990) in her theory of "commons" particularly focused on local solutions for local

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“…Public participation is defi ned as involvement of individuals/groups that are aff ected by a proposed intervention subject to a decision-making process (World Bank, 2006;Cho & Ho, 2018). According to Verdenicci and Hough (2015), when citizens were encouraged to act as whistle-blower reporting any experiences of corruption through a participatory initiative, corruption may well be discovered. For example, Bhargava (2015) presented the results of public participation in diff erent countries and showed that a variety of citizens' activities can have diff erent effects at diff erent levels and dimensions.…”

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Addressing police corruption in Southeast Asia: Politics, participation, and public management reform

Ngich¹,

Cho²

2021

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© 2020 National Research University Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved. As people’s interests and concerns on public safety have risen in Southeast Asia, academia has witnessed the growth of public management research on police corruption in the region. Little effort has been made to systematically analyse police corruption studies in Southeast Asia, therefore, we investigate what has been researched on police corruption in Southeast Asia in the field of public management. We present what research focuses there have been regarding anti-corruption measures and how they have changed over the last two decades, and then we offer suggestions for future research on this topic. Our analysis shows that political will was the most studied strategy in managing police corruption in the region, while anti-corruption agencies, police institutional reform and public participation have also been emphasized over time. Each Southeast Asian country places different emphases on these themes depending on the country’s unique context and experiences.

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People power and anti-corruption; demystifying citizen-centred approaches

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Bottom-Up Anti-Corruption Approach

Addressing police corruption in Southeast Asia: Politics, participation, and public management reform

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