The historical origins of corruption in the developing world: a comparative analysis of East Asia
A new approach has emerged in the literature on corruption in the developing world that breaks with the assumption that corruption is driven by individualistic self-interest and, instead, conceptualizes corruption as an informal system of norms and practices. While this emerging neo-institutionalist...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 145-165 |
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| Summary: | A new approach has emerged in the literature on corruption in the developing world that breaks with the assumption that corruption is driven by individualistic self-interest and, instead, conceptualizes corruption as an informal system of norms and practices. While this emerging neo-institutionalist approach has done much to further our understanding of corruption in the developing world, one key question has received relatively little attention: how do we explain differences in the institutionalization of corruption between developing countries? The paper here addresses this question through a systematic comparison of seven developing and newly industrialized countries in East Asia. The argument that emerges through this analysis is that historical sequencing mattered: countries in which the ‘political marketplace’ had gone through a process of concentration before universal suffrage was introduced are now marked by less harmful types of corruption than countries where mass voting rights where rolled out in a context of fragmented political marketplaces. The paper concludes by demonstrating that this argument can be generalized to the developing world as a whole. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 162-165 |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0751 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10611-016-9679-6 |