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Becoming Denmark: Historical Designs of Corruption Control

  • This paper conceptualizes public corruption as part of a broader social order context. It argues that corruption should not be conceived of as a social ‘malady’ to be eradicated, but rather as a default governance regime. People naturally favor their own, be it family, clan, race or ethnic group: treating the rest of the world fairly seems to be a matter of extensive social evolution and sufficient resources. Very few societies have evolved from this natural state of affairs to produce a state which can be expected to treat everyone equally and fairly, and to put public above private interest, when entrusted with the management of common affairs and resources. The paper surveys the approaches to anticorruption of three distinct political regimes, monarchy, medieval republic and modern democracy to conclude that current anticorruption should be conceptualized as solving collective action problems rather than as repression of deviance.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Editor(s):Arien Mack
Parent Title (English):Social Research: An International Quarterly
ISSN:0037-783X
Publisher:The Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publisher:Baltimore
Publication year:2013
First Page:1259
Last Page:1286
Release Date:2015/11/06
Tag:Collective action; Corruption; Favoritism; Modernization; Patrimonialism; Principal agent; Universalism
Volume:80
Issue:4
Hertie School Research:European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) | Centre
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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