Harrison, Elizabeth (2007) Corruption. Development in Practice, 17 (4+5). pp. 672-678. ISSN 0961-4524

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Abstract

This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destabilise 'taken for granted' assumptions about what corruption is and how it operates. This means generating an understanding of how meanings of corruption vary, and how this variation is determined by the social characteristics of those engaged in corruption talk. It also means examination of how discourses of corruption and anti-corruption are translated from international to national and local stages - from the anti-corruption 'establishment' to the realities of bureaucratic encounters in diverse contexts.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher's version available at official URL.
Keywords:	Governance and Public Policy, Methods
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Anthropology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User:	Chris Keene
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2019 09:15
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1578
Google Scholar:	51 Citations

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