Bad Governance & Corruption

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will get what they want without having to wait too long. In the Republic of Korea, where Communist-style control of the state has not existed, few feel they have the connections needed to push civil servants to do what they want. Where there is a choice for a service, the market offers a legal alternative for satisficing. Among Koreans and Czechs, this is most evident in the readiness to buy a house in the private sector or to pay a tutor to help their child to qualify for a university place. If Russians have the choice between spending money to get a public service by paying cash or using their social capital network, they are inclined to make use of Soviet-style social capital to escape from a corrupt public service. Nonetheless, even if people are prepared to pay a bribe to get a public service, this does not mean that they think it is the right thing to do (Fig. 1). On every continent, there is a consensus that it is wrong for officeholders to profit by claiming bribes. Whatever the level of bribery in a country, questions about the acceptability of bribery find overwhelming

EBRD

86%

GCB

85%

Eurobarometer

82%

LAPOP

81%

Afrobarometer

77% 0%

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40%

60%

80%

100%

Percent saying public officials behaving wrongly Fig. 1 Global consensus bribery is wrong (Sources Here and subsequently sources are as given in Table 2 in Chapter 1 unless otherwise noted)

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Bad Governance & Corruption

Published on Jun 9, 2021

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Political Corruption and Governance by Richard Rose & Caryn Peiffer This series aims to analyze the nature and scope of, as well as possible remedies for, political corruption. The rise to prominence over the last 20 years of corruption-related problems and of the ‘good governance’ agenda as the principal means to tackle them has led to the development of a plethora of (national and international) policy proposals, international agreements and anti-corruption programmers and initiatives. National governments, international organization's and NGOs all now claim to take very seriously the need to tackle issues of corruption. It is thus unsurprising that over couple of decades, a significant body of work with a wide and varied focus has been published in academic journals and in international discussion papers. This series seeks to provide a forum through which to address this growing body of literature. It invites not just in-depth single country analyses of corruption and attempts to combat it,

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Table A.6 Conventions in reporting data

Table A.5 Chapter 7: EBRD variables

Table A.1 Chapters 3, 5 and 7: Aggregate measures of national context

Table A.2 Chapter 5: Individual measures

fig. 1 Why corruption not reported

Table A.3 Chapter 7: Afrobarometer variables

Table A.4 Chapter 7: LAPOP variables

fig. A.1 Percentage paying bribe by country

Table 3 Breaking informal standards in Western Europe

Table 2 Corruption increases distrust in government

fig. 1 Impact of signifcant infuences on paying bribe

fig. 1 Global consensus bribery is wrong

Table 1 Corruption has little impact on going to vote

fig. 1 Perceptions of corruption in institutions

fig. 3 Bribery varies between and within continents

fig. 4 Consistent payers of bribes the exception

fig. 1 Big variations in corruption within every continent

fig. 2 Contact with services high in every continent