Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens.
This article presents comparative evidence about the relevance of behavioural drivers in relation to petty corruption in three East African countries. It discusses the potential to incorporate behavioural insights into anti-corruption policy-making. Persistently high levels of bureaucratic corruptio...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 232 - 250 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=145367797&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 145367797 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00020184 35L jtl: African Studies issn: 00020184 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2020 vid: 79 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 145367797 10.1080/00020184.2020.1803729 ppf: 232 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens. aug: au: Baez-Camargo, Claudia Bukuluki, Paul Sambaiga, Richard Gatwa, Tharcisse Kassa, Saba Stahl, Cosimo affil: Basel Institute on Governance, University of Basel, Switzerland Makerere University, Makerere, Uganda University of Dar es-Salaam, Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania Protestant University of Rwanda, Butare su: Public sector Corruption Political corruption Social groups Social pressure Tanzania East Africa Rwanda sug: subj: Tanzania East Africa Rwanda Public sector Corruption Political corruption Social groups Social pressure keyword: behavioural drivers behavioural insights petty corruption ab: This article presents comparative evidence about the relevance of behavioural drivers in relation to petty corruption in three East African countries. It discusses the potential to incorporate behavioural insights into anti-corruption policy-making. Persistently high levels of bureaucratic corruption prevail in many countries across the African continent. This along with the limited effectiveness of conventional anti-corruption prescriptions call for a contextualised understanding of the multiple factors determining corruption-related decision-making. Adopting a behavioural lens involves accounting for the human factor as it relates to the effects of sociality and social constructs on propensities for corruption. As such, this novel approach complements the literature that has sought to understand corruption on the basis of political, economic, and institutional drivers and constraints. Field research conducted in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda found evidence for such behavioural drivers, showing that citizens are swayed by social pressures and beliefs that ultimately spur petty corruption by endorsing associated maladaptive practices. Sustained by social norms of group solidarity and reciprocity and legitimised by commonly shared perceptions of corruption as the norm, the research points to a problematic overlap of the public (formal) and the socio-cultural (informal) spheres. By adding a behavioural dimension to the study of the drivers of corruption, this article seeks to contribute towards the development of more effective anti-corruption policy formulation that acknowledges the pitfalls attached to behavioural factors that conventional anti-corruption prescriptions have largely failed to address. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of African Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: African Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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