This article offers the first comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary state of knowledge
regarding anti-corruption policies, with a particular focus on reducing corruption among civil …

Background Corruption is the abuse or complicity in abuse, of public or private position,
power or authority to benefit oneself, a group, an organisation or others close to oneself; …

Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only
occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how …

Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based
on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective action theory offers a better understanding …

A growing body of research argues that anticorruption efforts fail because of a flawed
theoretical foundation, where collective action theory is said to be a better lens for …

Awareness-raising messages feature prominently in most anticorruption strategies. Yet,
there has been limited systematic research into their efficacy. There is growing concern that …

Corruption in the form of bribery continues to be a major societal challenge around the
world. The current lab-in-the-field study tested whether dynamic descriptive norms …

Developing countries are characterised by political settlements where formal rules are
generally weakly enforced and widely violated by the powerful. Conventional anti-corruption …

In 2008, Vian reported an increasing interest in understanding how corruption affects
healthcare outcomes and asked what could be done to combat corruption in the health …

Many anticorruption campaigns aim to encourage citizens to demand better control over
corruption. Recent literature suggests that perceived high levels of corruption and …