This timely
Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of corruption studies, assessing its accomplishments, missed opportunities, methodologies and the next stages for progressing research. It asks four key questions: What do we want to do? What questions should we ask? How, and where, should we look for answers? And where do we go from here?
Expert scholars provide a wide range of research perspectives and critiques, examining good practices, pressing questions and key challenges. Chapters cover topics such as constructing a postcolonial theory of corruption, understanding interviews as a research tool and determining why corruption strategies often fail. They also survey the possibilities and problems that technological developments create for researchers and reformers working in big data and AI. Presenting new ideas on the measurement and typologies of corruption, this Handbook looks to the future of corruption studies, reinvigorating research in this vital field.
The Handbook of Research Methods for Corruption Studies is a crucial resource for students and scholars of anti-corruption law, politics, public policy and sociology. It will also benefit practitioners and policymakers working in corruption prevention, providing suggestions for how research can effectively aid reform.
Arvustused
What we know about corruption depends on how we look for it. With a critical eye to measurement, inference and ethics, this handbook maps the fields core approaches and helps readers choose designs that fit their questionsstrengthening both research practice and the evidence base for reform. -- Tina Søreide, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norway
Contents
PART I WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO?
Introduction to Part I
Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods for Corruption Studies: not
your average cookbook 4
Michael Johnston
1 Dimensions of anticorruption: a framework for populist times 15
Mlada Bukovansky
2 DUMPing corruption 35
Adam Graycar
3 Global banking: cultures of immorality and corruption risks 48
Frank Vogl
4 Taking the profit out of corruption: asset recovery, success, or failure?
65
Stuart C. Gilman
5 The Sector Focus Remediation Action (SFRA) approach 75
Paul M. Heywood and Devi Pillay
6 Constructing a postcolonial theory of corruption: state capture in South
Africa 88
Thomas A. Koelble
7 Terra incognita of national anti-corruption reforms 100
Alexey Konov
PART II WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD WE ASK?
Introduction to Part II
8 Gender and underestimating vulnerability to grassroots corruption: time to
revisit the methodological toolbox 118
Caryn Peiffer
9 Beyond quid pro quo: the nature and dynamics of collective corruption 130
Ting Gong and Daan Wang
10 Corruption, economic incentives, and social norms: why anti-corruption
strategies often fail 141
Susan Rose-Ackerman
11 Dimensions of corruption: a typology of corruption and measurement options
156
Monika Bauhr
12 Challenges and advances in disaggregating corruption 168
Stephen D. Morris
13 Corruption control as a collective action problem in the principalagent
relationship 183
Jong-sung You
PART III HOW, AND WHERE, SHOULD WE LOOK FOR ANSWERS?
Introduction to Part III
14 Measuring corruption: evidence from surveys, experiments and the field
199
Johann Graf Lambsdorff
15 From convictions to perceptions: a critical review of methods for
measuring corruption 210
Oguzhan Dincer
16 Experimental approaches to studying corruption and anti-corruption 220
Shuguang Jiang
17 Countering elite corruption: how the mapping method helps unmask elite
influencers and their networks 236
Janine R. Wedel and Urszula Anna Horoszko
18 Survey research on corruption: challenges and advancements 265
Gustavo Gouvêa Maciel and Luís de Sousa
19 Addressing corruption in humanitarian assistance from a research
perspective: challenges, consequences and anti-corruption strategies 282
Ina Kubbe and Anwesha Chakraborty
20 Governance corruption and democratic exclusion: the corruptive effects of
excluding residents, staff, and families from nursing home care decisions
301
Frank Anechiarico, Elian Sorensen and Staffan Andersson
21 Anti-corruption from the grassroots in digitalized societies: from
websites and social media platforms to chatbots and artificial intelligence
applications 315
Alice Mattoni
22 Detecting corruption in the digital age: big data issues and reform
opportunities 328
Fernanda Odilla
23 Negotiation processes: multilevel channels that promote or deter
corruption 343
Bertram I. Spector
24 Understanding interviews as a research tool in corruption studies 354
Aiysha Varraich
PART IV WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Introduction to Part IV
25 Corruption in the liminal time: enduring questions and theory 368
Lucio Picci
26 Democracy and corruption of the public sphere 375
Mark E. Warren
27 Recalibrating anti-corruption assessment: theories of change in a
multi-level approach 385
Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez
28 Bringing the facts back in: measuring corruption for evaluation purposes
400
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
29 A comprehensive approach: reimagining the fight against corruption on a
global scale 416
Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
30 Bridging theory and reality: research as the cornerstone of impactful
anti-corruption education 426
Pawan Kumar Sinha and Mallika Mahajan
31 Un-plateauing corruption research? Perhaps less necessary, but more
exciting than one might think 442
Dieter Zinnbauer
Edited by Michael Johnston, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Colgate University, USA
