In the spring of 1989, university students, joined later by workers, civil servants and journalists, held massive demonstrations in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The demonstrators had two prominent demands—democratic reforms and an end to corruption. Despite the apparent success of the economic reform in rapidly raising the standards of living for the vast majority of Chinese, by the late 19...

Purpose The aim of the paper is to analyse prevalence corruption in Malaysia since 2004 relation political leadership, implementation anti-corruption measures and business culture based on money politics. Design/methodology/approach draws from information data provided by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, government, international organisations, media reports, academic papers. Findings anal...

Corruption poses one of the major societal challenges of our time. Considerable advances have been made in understanding corruption on a macro level, yet the psychological antecedents of corrupt behavior remain largely unknown. In order to explain why some people engage in corruption while others do not, we explored the impact of descriptive social norms on corrupt behavior by using a novel beh...

The Working Paper presents the results of a nationwide survey 1,209 individuals in Bulgaria, conducted February to early March 2023.
 examined how corruption is perceived Bulgaria by different types respondent, and what kind behaviour considered acceptable.
 It also looked at respondents’ perceptions anti-corruption efforts under which circumstances they would be more likely report au...

March 2, 2006 Abstract: Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. Corruption flourished in the Suharto, pre-democracy era. This paper asks whether local democratization that occurred after Suharto reduced corruption and whether specific local politics, over and above the effects of local culture, affect corruption. We have a firm lev...