Preface to the First Edition (1999)

Rose‐Ackerman, Susan; Palifka, Bonnie J.

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“…[7] Question V213 in 1995 Á/1998 read: 'How widespread do you think bribe taking and corruption is in your country? (1) Almost no public officials are engaged in it. 2A few public officials are engaged in it.…”

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“…Corruption may be the single most significant obstacle to both democratization and economic development. 1 Economists marshal convincing evidence of the toll that corruption Á/ the misuse of public office for private gain Á/ exacts on economic growth. 2 Corruption also corrodes democracy (Johnston, 1997;, undermining the most fundamental principles of democratic governance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Corruption, Culture, and Communism

Sandholtz

Taagepera²

2005

International Review of Sociology

152

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Cultural factors, as measured by the two dimensions of values identified by Inglehart, explain 75% of the variation in the Perceived Corruption Index across non-communist countries. A strong 'survival' orientation contributes twice as much as a strong 'traditional' orientation to higher levels of corruption. When controlling for these cultural variables, communism and post-communism increase the levels of corruption even further, both directly and by contributing to heavier emphasis on survival values. Communism created structural incentives for engaging in corrupt behaviors, which became such a widespread fact of life that they became rooted in the culture in these societies Á/ that is, the social norms and practices prevailing in communist societies. The transitions toward democracy and market economies have not yet erased this culture of corruption. In addition, the process of privatization itself has opened myriad opportunities for corruption. The effects are manifest in comparisons of corruption in non-communist and (post-)communist countries in five cultural zones.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Corruption, Culture, and Communism

Sandholtz

Taagepera²

2005

International Review of Sociology

152

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“…For example, private individuals offer bribes routinely to state bureaucrats to speedily facilitate various transactions, including getting licenses, passports, permits, and receiving government contracts to provide various services. As Ackerman-Rose (1999, p. 19) observers in the case of the payment of taxes, “Businesses and individuals may collude with tax collectors and custom agents to lower the sum collected.”…”

Section: The Historical Development Of the Peripheral State In The Gl...mentioning

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“…1.For a sample of the corpus of the scholarly literature on corruption, see Rose-Ackerman (1999); Johnston and Heidenheimer (2001); Rotberg (2009); Mbaku (2010); Fisman and Golden (2017). …”

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The Peripheral State and Corruption in The Global South

Kieh

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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Corruption is a major enduring feature of the political economies of the states in the Global South. It finds expression in various illegal and unethical practices, including bribery, extortion, embezzlement, and fraudulent procurement schemes, perpetrated particularly by public officials occupying various positions in the branches of government and the constituent agencies. Two of the major emergent issues are: (a) What are the major causes of corruption in the Global South? and (b) What are the modalities for addressing the scourge of corruption? The corpus of scholarly literature that has emerged to address these two interlocking questions has focused on the causal factors of corruption, such as elite pathologies and institutional weaknesses, and on legal and institutional reforms as major remedies. In this article, the major contention is that the extant scholarly literature has neglected the peripheral state as a major motor force for corruption in the Global South. This article examines the role of the peripheral state in the Global South in the perpetration of corruption and suggests its democratic reconstitution as the major panacea.

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“…On the one hand, because of their local connections, the rulers and public of cials of the successor states tend to be seen, and perhaps to see each other, as more vulnerable to corruption even than Western of cials had been during the colonial period. 16 On the other, the positive af rmation of non-Western values provides them with a local, culturally speci c variant of the patronising liberal view that the people of these domains cannot yet be trusted to govern themselves.…”

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