The purpose of this research paper is to investigate whether there exist alterative methods ofexamining the widespread nature of corruption in Russia. According to Transparency International’s most recently published Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Russia ranks 133 out of 176 countries and territories, indicating that Russia’s public sector is perceived to be a corrupt as those of the Comoro...

Using Transparency International’s ratings of firm disclosures on anticorruption efforts, we find that disclosures are related to firms’ country and industry exposures to corruption, and to enforcement and monitoring variables. We then examine whether firms’ residual anticorruption disclosures are related to subsequent allegations of corruption and subsequent performance. Firms with abnormally ...

Recent police corruption cases in several cities, including New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, highlight the association of police corruption with illegal drug activities. You asked us to study the impact of drug trafficking on the corruption of police in large cities that have a high incidence of drug trafficking and drug abuse. As agreed with your office, in conducting our preliminary work,...

International institutions and in particular the World Bank and the IMF are rightly giving a great deal of attention to issues of governance in developing countries, and particularly corruption. While they are right to believe that governance matters, governance in the most successful developing countries has often been starkly at variance with the good governance model. Even the most successfu...

Political corruption has been a persistent phenomenon throughout history and across societies. It is found today in many di€erent forms and degrees in all types of political systems, in developing countries as well as in Western democracies. The phenomenon is not solely or even largely the consequence of a moral fault or cultural backwardness. The root cause of corruption, in Europe as well as ...

1 The editors wish to thank the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG) for a generous grant for the editing and correction work involved in this special issue. 2 For a recent volume on theoretical perceptions of political corruption, see G. de Graaff / P. von Maravic / F.P. Wagenaar (eds.), The Good Cause. Theoretical Perspectives on Corruption, Opladen 2010. For historical studies on corrup...

We discuss a procedure proposed by Voas, Payne & Cohen [6] for detecting the existence of software corruption in real time. In particular, we discuss problems posed by the concurrent execution of programs. In the cases where the proposed method may work, corruption is unlikely to be a problem; and where corruption by viruses and Trojans are a problem, major problems with the method remain.

The problem of corruption has been universally acknowledged as a drain on a country's developmental efforts. Anticorruption reform hitherto has focused on political corruption. Administrative corruption which citizens have to contend with on a daily basis is only just beginning to attract attention. There have been various strategies, intensifying