Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

Camargo, Claudia Baez; Koechlin, Lucy

doi:10.4000/poldev.2646

Cited by 11 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Camargo's hypothesis (drawn from collective action theory) that it is networks of actors rather than individuals that are involved in corruption also resonates with our findings. In Bangladesh, these appeared to be more hierarchically organised networks than those in Tanzania and Rwanda that Baez Camargo and Koechlin examined 63 ; but as in these African settings, it would be very difficult for individuals to step out of the informal system through which more desirable placements are distributed.…”

Section: R: What Was the Cost Of Posting In X [A Better Area]?mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…They may draw on political or kinbased ties, or be formed of looser social relationships that can stretch across sectors and different types of street-level bureaucrats (teachers, social workers, health workers) so that resources from the education section (access to schools) may be traded with those from the health sector (more timely access to health workers). 63 In places in which petty corruption is commonplace, these broader networks are often found, with more highly concealed and closed networks often emerging in countries where petty corruption is not tolerated. 66 These bodies of work provide thick descriptions of corruption and demonstrate how any model or framework must account for the ways in which historical, social and economic factors do much more than create rationalisations for corruption (as suggested in Vian's model).…”

Section: Bmj Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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 sector. Eleven years later, corruption is seen as a heterogeneous mix of activity, extensive and expensive in terms of loss of productivity, increasing inequity and costs, but with few examples of programmes that have successfully tackled corruption in low-income or middle-income countries. The commitment, by multilateral organisations and many governments to the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage has renewed an interest to find ways to tackle corruption within health systems. These efforts must, however, begin with a critical assessment of the existing theoretical models and approaches that have underpinned action in the health sector in the past and an assessment of the potential of innovations from anticorruption work developed in sectors other than health. To that end, this paper maps the key debates and theoretical frameworks that have dominated research on corruption in health. It examines their limitations, the blind spots that they create in terms of the questions asked, and the capacity for research to take account of contextual factors that drive practice. It draws on new work from heterodox economics which seeks to target anticorruption interventions at practices that have high impact and which are politically and economically feasible to address. We consider how such approaches can be adopted into health systems and what new questions need to be addressed by researchers to support the development of sustainable solutions to corruption. We present a short case study from Bangladesh to show how such an approach reveals new perspectives on actors and drivers of corruption practice. We conclude by considering the most important areas for research and policy.

show abstract

Section: R: What Was the Cost Of Posting In X [A Better Area]?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Bmj Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In parallel, the operations of organised crime make the evolution of the criminal network more effective and efficient. In fact, a criminal organisation acts as an enforcer that implements, empowers and controls informal norms of cooperation and repetition mechanisms, as well as performs the functions of cooptation, coordination, conflict, bargaining and security (Baez Camargo and Koechlin 2018). This role of a criminal organisation hence helps in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of the criminal network, and consequently the profitability of IWT.…”

Section: Is Organisation Arising From Chaos?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Working Paper 35: Social network analysis applied to illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Costa

2021

Work. pap. ser. (Basel Inst. Gov.)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This report presents the findings of a novel application of social network analysis (SNA) to study a criminal network surrounding an East Africa-based wildlife trafficker. This technique focuses on understanding structural, functional and sociometric characteristics of networks by mapping social interactions between individuals and groups. Particularly, the research studies how wildlife trafficking happens, and, in doing so, offers several promising avenues to curb it. SNA makes it possible to deconstruct the criminal network in question and identity its key individuals, operative functions and flows of goods, information and money. In turn, this can sustain the activities of investigators and prosecutors to discover new leads and suspects, or to better understand the meaning of financial and information flows. The research has been conducted under a project of PMI Impact aimed at stopping corruption from fuelling illegal wildlife trade (IWT) between East Africa and Southeast Asia. The results show that by combining SNA (a primarily quantitative method) with network ethnography (a qualitative method), we can gain important new insights into the structures, functions and mechanisms of crime networks engaged in IWT. This paper is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650. See also the abridged version. This report was funded by PMI IMPACT, a grant award initiative of Philip Morris International (PMI). In the performance of their research, the authors maintained full independence from PMI. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of PMI. Neither PMI, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.

show abstract

“…Un intermédiaire peut être un membre de la parentèle, un représentant de la coopérative ou quiconque dans le réseau de référence des acteurs qui va se faire rétribuer pour garantir les termes de la négociation. Ce processus d'intermédiation fait écho à ce que Baez Camargo et Koechlin nomment les pratiques de « camouflage » permettant de protéger et de légitimer le réseau social et ses pratiques en insérant l'action dans des pratiques usuelles 101 .…”

Section: Extrait D'entretien Avec Un Taxi-moto 97unclassified

Sur les routes de Kigali : évolution des pratiques de petite corruption

Nicaise¹

2021

Politique Africaine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

13. Autrement dit, une pratique de corruption pourra être considérée comme une norme sociale si elle correspond 1) à une attente empirique (une conformité est attendue envers un comportement donné) ; 2) à une attente normative a) si une conformité envers une croyance collective est déterminante dans le comportement des acteurs ; b) si la croyance en un système de sanction sociale influence les pratiques et les préférences des acteurs.

show abstract

Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems

Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems

Working Paper 35: Social network analysis applied to illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Sur les routes de Kigali : évolution des pratiques de petite corruption

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About