Corruption

Riccardi, Michele; Sarno, Federica

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_635

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“…A quick check to the literature allows us to see, there is a large amount of studies addressing the conceptualization or definition of corruption (Andvig et al, 2001;Riccardi & Sarno, 2014). Several definitions for corruption have been proposed in proportion to the number of social, economic and political areas were corruption has taken place (definitions according to sector), as well as from the prism of the multi-discipline (definitions according to discipline).…”

Section: Defining Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though the efforts to define corruption from general to specific settings are diverse, one may argue that those definitions have little to do in current anti-corruption efforts since at the end of the day, the legal definitions of corruption, such as bribery, embezzlement or obstruction of justice (UN General Assembly, 2003) are the ones against whom prosecutors and investigators can do something about it, in other words, where there's no crime there's no punishment. Nonetheless, the task of defining corruption is important because it bounds the subject matter, however, this task must go beyond the mere delimitation of the phenomenon in different contexts, but also strive to generate an operational and quantifiable definition, so that its causes and possible effects may the described with greater precision (Olken & Pande, 2012;Riccardi & Sarno, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the problem of prediction is not rigorously addressed within the vast academic literature about corruption, and we know little of the aspects that may help predict these acts in a precise manner (Colonnelli, Gallego & Prem, 2019). For example, the statistical models used in diverse studies (Olken & Pande, 2012) lack the capacity of prediction due to the scope of the data used, the spatial and temporal scales of analysis, the fields of operation, and the high dependency on correlations, making nearly impossible to establish causalities for different events (Riccardi & Sarno, 2014). As it is, conclusions and proposals derived from such models should be considered reservedly within their respective contexts.…”

Section: Predicting Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks

Luna-Pla

Nicolás-Carlock

2020

Appl Netw Sci

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According to United Nations, corruption is a systemic and adaptive phenomenon that requires comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches for its effective prevention and combat. However, traditional approaches lack the analytical tools to handle the structural and dynamical aspects that characterize modern social, political and technological systems where corruption takes place. On this matter, complex systems science has emerged as a comprehensive framework to study highly adaptive phenomena from natural to socio-technical settings. Thus, in this article we present an empirical approach to model corruption using the concepts and tools of complexity science, mainly, complex networks science. Under this framework, we describe a major corruption scandal that took place in Mexico involving a network of hundreds of shell companies used to embezzle billions of dollars. We describe the structure and dynamics of this corporate network using available information related to their personnel and the date of the companies' creation. We measured some global parameters, such as density, diameter, average path length, and average degree in order to provide systematic evidence on which corporate characteristics are likely to signal corruption. Moreover, this analysis also provides an objective perspective of the systemic nature of events where companies are abused for corrupt purposes, and the shortcomings of reductionistic analyses. Major corruption scandals comprise both legal and illegal deeds, in addition to several parties acting simultaneously over extended time periods. As a whole, such scandals pose enormous challenges for the study of law and put the legal design of administrative and criminal controls to the test.

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Section: Defining Corruptionmentioning

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Section: Defining Corruptionmentioning

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Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks

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Nicolás-Carlock

2020

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“…A third distinction is often made between administrative and political corruption (Khan 2004;Pope 2000;Riccardi & Sarno 2013). This distinction is more related to the types of operations/processes influenced by the corrupt behaviour and to the types of public officials involved.…”

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“…Administrative corruption refers to the state administration at central and local level (OECD 2015: 19) and involves civil servants. It mainly alters the implementation of policies (rather than their formulation) and service delivery (Gould 1991;Huberts 1998: 211;OECD 2015: 29;Riccardi & Sarno 2013). Political corruption refers to act at the political level, often with high-level civil servants involved.…”

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PROTOCOL: Administrative Reforms in the Public Sector and their Impact on the level of Corruption: A Systematic Review

Killias¹,

Mugellini²,

Isenring³

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Public sector reforms and their impact on the level of corruption: A systematic review

Mugellini

Bella

Colagrossi

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Background: In spite of the large number of anti-corruption reforms implemented in different countries, there has been little research that empirically and systematically assesses the impact of these efforts. Objectives:The main objective of this review is to identify what works in curbing corruption in the public sector, by meta-analyzing the findings of published and unpublished evaluations of different types of anti-corruption interventions in different countries. The focus of this review is administrative corruption, namely corrupt acts involving civil servants in their dealings with their superiors, during the implementation of public policies, or while interacting with the public for service delivery. Political corruption (in the adoption of laws, regulations, and policies), and private-to-private corruption (involving only private actors) are excluded from this review.Search methods: The literature search was conducted by querying three widely recognized electronic databases: RePEc, SSRN, and Web of Science. These databases are considered the most comprehensive in the socio-economic field of research. The main grey literature repositories were also queried. Both published and unpublished studies were searched on the basis of specific combinations of keywords. The terms used to define queries were based on the "types of corruption", "types of interventions/policies/reforms" and "study design" search strings. Specific conventions were used to "explode" or "truncate" keywords as appropriate. Screening of the references (i.e., snowballing) of the identified studies was also performed, and a reverse snowballing approach on Google Scholar was used. In order to ensure replicability, all searches were stored into Covidence, an online software developed by the Cochrane community for screening studies and extracting data for systematic reviews.

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Corruption

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks

Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks

PROTOCOL: Administrative Reforms in the Public Sector and their Impact on the level of Corruption: A Systematic Review

Public sector reforms and their impact on the level of corruption: A systematic review

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