The impacts of education and institutional trust on citizens’ willingness to report corruption: lessons from Papua New Guinea

Walton, Grant W.; Peiffer, Caryn

doi:10.1080/10361146.2017.1374346

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“…Second, ensuring these areas were included led to sampled respondents having, on average, higher levels of formal education than other urbanites in PNG. This means that respondents were likely to hold a narrower definition of corruption and be more positively predisposed to reporting it than their rural and less educated compatriots (Walton, 2015; Walton & Peiffer, 2017). While this should be kept in mind when drawing generalizations from this study, there is no expectation that this difference will affect the efficacy of the experiment in the context of PNG.…”

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Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Peiffer

Walton²

2022

Development Policy Review

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Summary Motivation Anti‐corruption campaigns often include an awareness‐raising component that stress the consequences of corruption. Indeed, governments and international donors have spent millions on promoting the evils of corruption. Experience suggests, however, that messages that highlight the prevalence of corruption may backfire by adding to the belief that corruption is normal. Purpose The article examines the impacts of anti‐corruption messages on citizens' willingness to report corruption in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Methods and approach We present findings from a survey‐experiment conducted with over 1,500 respondents in Port Moresby to understand how Papua New Guineans might respond to different messages about corruption and anti‐corruption. The messages tested emphasized the legal, moral, and communal aspects of corruption and anti‐corruption in PNG, as well as its ubiquity. Findings Respondents were more likely to be favourable about reporting corruption when they were exposed to anti‐corruption messages that emphasized the impacts on their local kinship groups. Messages that emphasized that corruption is widespread, illegal or immoral did not affect respondents' willingness to do something about it. Policy implications Findings suggest that policymakers must be careful in framing anti‐corruption messages, which need to be carefully adapted to the local context and tested before they are deployed. Targeted campaigns can help motivate anti‐corruption action if messages focus on the impact of corruption on what matters most to citizens. In the case of PNG, anti‐corruption messages should emphasize how corruption has an impact on citizens' family and local community.

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Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Peiffer

Walton²

2022

Development Policy Review

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“…Second, citizens are even more likely to report corruption if they trust that anti-corruption agencies will do something about it. Finally, citizens are far more likely to respond to corruption when they understand how it impacts on their local community (Walton and Peiffer, 2017). Overall, these findings suggest that supporting the formal education sector, strengthening anti-corruption organisations and raising awareness about how corruption impacts on local communities are likely to lead to more citizens reporting corruption.…”

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“…In focus groups conducted with citizens across four provinces in PNG, respondents spoke of directly confronting and even physically assaulting those involved in what they thought was corrupt behaviour (Walton, 2018). Likely because they dominate the police and other public institutions, men are more likely to report corruption than women (Walton, 2019;Walton and Peiffer, 2017). While it is true that some citizens might support and participate in corrupt practices (Crocombe, 2001), particularly bribery during elections, it is important to note that many also resist these practices.…”

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“…Recent research on what might motivate citizens to report corruption has highlighted three key drivers. First, researchers have found that formal education is key in determining how likely it is that citizens will report corruption to authorities (Walton and Peiffer, 2017). In short, those who are educated above primary school level are more likely to report a variety of different types of corruption.…”

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Crime and corruption

Walton¹,

Dinnen²

2022

Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society

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Concerns about crime and corruption in Papua New Guinea (PNG) predate independence and are considered by many to be a significant threat to its prosperity and stability. In this chapter, we examine understandings of, and drivers and responses to, crime and corruption in PNG's recent history. We show how manifestations of and responses to crime and corruption have changed over time and across space. While these two concepts clearly overlap (with corruption often regarded a crime and crime often facilitated by corruption), for analytical purposes they are treated here as two distinct concepts. We argue that it is important to recognise the networks and relationships that animate crime and corruption and the responses to these challenges. It is also important to understand the ways these challenges and responses change over time.

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“…Most of the landowners in the cases could not write, read or speak in English. Thus, in such societies there is greater need for the regulation of corporates and the need to educate and safeguard the rights of Indigenous landowners (Walton and Peiffer, 2017).…”

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Agents of alienation: accountants and the land grab of Papua New Guinea

Finau

Jacobs

Chand

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and examine the role of accounting and accountants in customary land transactions between Indigenous peoples and foreign corporate entities. The paper uses the case of two accountants who utilised accounting technologies in lease agreements to alienate customary land from Indigenous landowners in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Design/methodology/approach Employing a case study methodology, the paper draws on contemporary data sets of transcripts related to a Commission of Inquiry established in 2011 to investigate PNG’s Special Agricultural Business Lease system. Analysis of other publicly available data and semi-structured interviews with PNG landowners and other stakeholders supplement and triangulate data from the inquiry transcripts. A Bourdieusian lens was adopted to conceptualise how accounting was used in the struggles for customary land between foreign developers and Indigenous landowners within the wider capitalist field and the traditional Melanesian field. Findings This paper reveals how accountants exploited PNG’s customary land registration system, the Indigenous peoples’ lack of financial literacy and their desperation for development to alienate customary land from landowners. The accountants employed accounting technologies in the sublease agreements to reduce their royalty obligations to the landowners and to impose penalty clauses that made it financially impossible for the landowners to cancel the leases. The accountants used accounting to normalise, legitimise and rationalise these exploitative arrangements in formal lease contracts. Originality/value This paper responds to the call for research on accounting and Indigenous peoples that is contemporary rather than historic; examines the role of accountants in Indigenous relations, and examines the emancipatory potential of accounting.

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The impacts of education and institutional trust on citizens’ willingness to report corruption: lessons from Papua New Guinea

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Crime and corruption

Agents of alienation: accountants and the land grab of Papua New Guinea

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