RT Article
T1 Low-Level Corruption Tolerance: an "Action-Based" Approach for Peru and Latin America
A1 Pozsgai Alvarez, Joseph
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588525996
AB Since the beginning of the past decade, the tolerance of corruption by citizens of most Latin American countries has become a concept in its own right within the broader study of corruption. This construct, however, lacks a systematic approach and is yet to account for specific types of corruption tolerance or identify appropriate indicators to measure them. The present study addresses these voids by analyzing data provided by LAPOP's AmericasBarometer 2006 for Peru (a typical case for the incidence of bribery in Latin America) and the Global Corruption Barometer against a carefully constructed framework for the understanding of the phenomenon of corruption tolerance. The results indicate that attitudes toward specific types of low-level corruption should not be equated to citizens' decisions to engage in such behavior. They further suggest that the study of corruption tolerance has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of the determinants of corruption in developing c
CN 320 301
K1 Korruption
K1 Wahrnehmung
K1 Messung
K1 Politische Elite
K1 Sozialkapital
K1 Zivilgesellschaft
K1 Engagement
K1 Politische Partizipation
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Peru
K1 Lateinamerika
K1 Andenraum
K1 Entwicklungsland