Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing Trap : Implications for Reform Strategy

Corruption is widely believed to be a self-reinforcing phenomenon, in the sense that the incentive to engage in corrupt acts increases as corruption becomes more widespread. Some argue that corruption's self-reinforcing property necessarily implies that incremental anticorruption reforms cannot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephenson, Matthew C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36810