This article offers the first comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary state of knowledge
regarding anti-corruption policies, with a particular focus on reducing corruption among civil …

Studies on perceptions of corruption have grown in recent years but are still struggling with
several conceptual and measurement issues. This scoping review provides an analysis of …

This article constructs a grounded framework to study how corruption is consolidated in local
governments. We focus on the fine‐grained texture of corrupt practices that can only be …

Undermining the State from Within pulls back the curtain on the counterinsurgent state to
better understand how conflict dynamics affect state institutions and continue to shape …

Although the world of sports has witnessed numerous corruption scandals, the effects of
perceived corruption in sports have not been sufficiently investigated in the literature. The …

China's recent economic growth, along with rising corruption, challenges the widespread
sanding wheels view of corruption. The lack of a general theory linking corruption and …

The article analyzes how economic theory usually investigates corruption. It describes the
main traditional economic theories dealing with this issue—principal-agent theory (agency …

Existing studies based on institutional or rationalist approaches have limitations in
explaining changes in individual ethical behaviour and thus propose social psychological …

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and
macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) …

Principal‐agent models of corruption control that emphasize rules, incentives, and sanctions
as prime antecedents of corruption often stop short when evaluating how these general …