Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning?

Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive survey 82 planning practitioners Ghana semistructured interviews with 17 these respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences corruption. found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by particularities culture, are necessary but insufficient unpack planning, both outside sub-Saharan Africa. Personal values coercion also play roles incentivizing learned rely on social coping mechanisms resist corruption, which speaks broadly monitoring themselves when institutional controls seem weak or nonexistent within culture. Further across cultures is called develop curricula practices can help students professional planners understand resolve other moral dilemmas specific their contexts.Takeaway practice Practitioners, educators, must better how it complicates This understanding requires examining workplace norms (re)produce among practitioners, especially gender, ethnic/racial, minority practitioners. Planning schools, associations, workplaces respond realities purveying context-sensitive anticorruption competencies