RT Article
T1 Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 82
IS 3
SP 493
OP 516
A1 Labik Amanquandor, Thomas Duke
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1906565619
AB In the Global South, anti-corruption initiatives continue to fail despite varying commitments to the international anti-corruption agenda. Concurrently, as this study demonstrates, researchers investigating this paradox appear confined within orthodox explanations for failing anti-corruption efforts. Through a systematic review of 58 studies, this paper demonstrates that South Africa’s anti-corruption corpora from 1995 to 2022 fall to this critique. By employing socio-legal theoretical perspectives, the paper elucidates how and why the orthodoxy dominates the corpora and subsequently suggests a more nuanced understanding of the country’s ongoing failure to combat corruption. For example, the paper argues that the intricacies of South Africa’s corruption challenge the perspective that anti-corruption measures fail simply due to widespread rule-breaking. Through the prism of legal pluralism, this paper demonstrates that adherence to rules is indeed prevalent in South Africa, albeit often not aligned with formal state anti-corruption legislation and regulations. Finally, the paper posits innovative approaches to enhance and broaden our comprehension of why anti-corruption efforts fail, especially in the Global South.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 511-516
K1 Anti-corruption
K1 South-Africa
K1 Legal pluralism
K1 Legal consciousness
K1 Collective action theory
K1 Principal-agent theory
K1 Corruption
K1 UNCAC
DO 10.1007/s10611-024-10152-y