Defining Political Corruption

Philp, Mark

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“…' It is important to remember that institutions are rooted in specific contexts, and moreover that they can also encompass unwritten codes of conduct, norms of behaviour, beliefs and customs that influence and shape behaviour [16]. There is a risk that our implicit notion of how 'uncorrupted' or 'proper' politics should be organized is based on Western-style liberal democratic institutions [17,18]. Such assumptions about the 'proper' form of institutions are indeed rooted in the NIS framework itself: the TI method encourages national chapters to include pillars in an NIS assessment regardless of whether each one exists in their country.…”

Section: The Nis's Institutional Focusmentioning

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Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology

Heywood

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2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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This article provides an assessment and critique of the National Integrity System approach and methodology, informed by the experience of conducting an NIS review in Cambodia. It explores four key issues that potentially undermine the relevance and value of NIS reports for developing democracies: the narrowly conceived institutional approach underpinning the NIS methodology; the insufficient appreciation of cultural distinctiveness; a failure properly to conceptualise and articulate the very notion of 'integrity'; and an over-emphasis on compliance-based approaches to combating corruption at the expense of the positive promotion of integrity. The article seeks to offer some pointers to how the NIS approach could be adapted to broaden its conceptualisation of institutions and integrity, and thereby provide reports that are more theoretically informed as well as being more constructive and actionable.

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Section: The Nis's Institutional Focusmentioning

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Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology

Heywood

Johnson²

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…The corruption is generally defined as the form of illegal transaction done by public officials and private actors, in which the parties exchange the resources for the sake of personal interests (Philp, 2007). That general definition covers the vast forms of corruption behaviours, from the abuse of authority to violent behaviour done by the government officials in allocating and distributing resources.…”

Section: Patronage Clientelism and Political Corruptionmentioning

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Korupsi dan Klientalisme dalam Pemilihan Walikota Cimahi 2017

Paskarina¹

2017

Power, Conflict and Democracy Journal

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“…D'une certaine manière, il s'agit là d'une nouvelle version d'un problème classique : pour penser la corruption, il faut être à même de penser des états de choses « non-corrompus », ce qui est loin d'être une tâche facile. Comme le remarque Mark Phelp, c'est d'ailleurs ce qui explique en partie pourquoi il est si difficile de définir la corruption (Phelp, 1997). Or, dans l'optique de la théo-rie de la corruption institutionnelle, c'est la détermination du telos de l'institution qui est cruciale, puisque c'est de cela dont l'institution corrompue est détournée.…”

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À quoi sert la conception institutionnelle de la corruption ?1

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2014

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Mon objectif dans cet article est de mieux cerner les contours d’une conception institutionnelle de la corruption. Je tenterai de contribuer à ce programme de recherches sur la corruption institutionnelle d’une double façon. Premièrement, j’essaierai de clarifier le concept de « corruption institutionnelle » en mettant en lumière quatre de ses principales caractéristiques et certains de ses avantages. Deuxièmement, je tenterai d’exposer trois problèmes auxquels sont confrontés ses partisans : les problèmes de la portée, du faux-diagnostic et de l’essentialisme. Malgré la sympathie que j’ai pour cette approche, j’espère montrer qu’elle recèle certains points problématiques. Je tenterai essentiellement de montrer que les « institutionnalistes » risquent de faire de la corruption un concept normativement surchargé.This paper investigates the meaning of an institutional understanding of corruption and aims to provide a better conceptual map of it. I will attempt to achieve two main tasks. First, I will try to shed some light on four features of the concept of institutional corruption and some of its advantages. Second, I argue that such institutional conception of corruption faces three main problems, which I label as the scope, false-diagnosis and essentialist problems. While being sympathetic to the institutional approach, I will try to show how the proponents of it risk using the concept of corruption in a normatively over-inclusive way

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Defining Political Corruption

Cited by 175 publications

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Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology

Cultural specificity versus institutional universalism: a critique of the National Integrity System (NIS) methodology

Korupsi dan Klientalisme dalam Pemilihan Walikota Cimahi 2017

À quoi sert la conception institutionnelle de la corruption ?1

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