Re-thinking the pervasiveness of corruption in Western countries

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Re-thinking the pervasiveness of corruption in Western countries

Original language description

This paper studies the pervasiveness of corruption in Western societies. Corruption has often been presented as higher in developing or (former) transitional economies than in the North-West part of the world (Western Europe, North America). Internationally used ranking of countries classified by the level of Corruption (i.e. Transparency International, World Bank) show that most of the Western countries are on the safest side. Nonetheless, there are studies (Johnston, 2005; Shaxson, 2011) highlighting that corruption is very diffused also in this area of the world, even if the available international ranking does not necessarily show Western countries as particularly tainted by corruption. This apparent incongruent result may be due to the forms that corruption takes in Western societies. Administrative corruption or blatant extortion from public officials may be less diffused than in other areas of the planet. Nevertheless, State Capture and/or Grand Corruption (these two sub-phenomena are often equivalent) are present and may take extremely sophisticated (and less visible) forms. This paper investigates on the mechanisms of corruption in the West, rather than measuring it numerically, through case-studies. Case studies are a method that is useful to research on particular mechanisms and to shed light on relatively under-researched phenomena.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ANTIcorruption & fraud: DETECTION & MEASUREMENT: Prague, April 7, 2017, Anglo-American University: Proceedings of the international conference

ISBN

978-80-906585-2-3

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

84-98

Publisher name

Anglo-americká vysoká škola, z.ú.

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Praha

Event date

Apr 7, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000588194600004