Table Of ContentCORRUPTION
AND NORMS
Why Informal Rules Matter
Edited by Ina Kubbe
and Annika Engelbert
POLITICAL
CORRUPTION
& GOVERNANCE
Political Corruption and Governance
Series Editors
Dan Hough
Centre for the Study of Corruption
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
Paul M. Heywood
School of Politics and IR
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
This series aims to analyse the nature and scope of, as well as possible rem-
edies for, political corruption. The rise to prominence over the last 20
years of corruption-related problems and of the ‘good governance’ agenda
as the principal means to tackle them has led to the development of a
plethora of (national and international) policy proposals, international
agreements and anti-corruption programmes and initiatives. National
governments, international organisations and NGOs all now claim to take
very seriously the need to tackle issues of corruption. It is thus unsurpris-
ing that over couple of decades, a significant body of work with a wide and
varied focus has been published in academic journals and in international
discussion papers This series seeks to provide a forum through which to
address this growing body of literature. It invites not just in-depth single
country analyses of corruption and attempts to combat it, but also com-
parative studies that explore the experiences of different states (or regions)
in dealing with different types of corruption. We also invite monographs
that take an overtly thematic focus, analysing trends and developments in
one type of corruption across either time or space, as well as theoretically
informed analysis of discrete events.
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Ina Kubbe • Annika Engelbert
Editors
Corruption and
Norms
Why Informal Rules Matter
Editors
Ina Kubbe Annika Engelbert
Department of Political Science Law Faculty
Tel Aviv University Ruhr University Bochum
Tel Aviv, Israel Bochum, Germany
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reface and cknowledgments
This book is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of corruption. It
arose from the “Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network”
(https://www.icrnetwork.org/)—a network of young corruption
researchers from different disciplinary, national and cultural backgrounds.
We, the founding members—Annika Engelbert, Jessica Flakne, Steven
Gawthorpe, Oksana Huss, Nils Köbis, Ina Kubbe, Corinna Martin, Anna
Schwickerath, and Sofia Wickberg—believe that exchange and collabora-
tion is paramount to foster the understanding of the complex and socially
harmful phenomenon of corruption.
Our vision is to reconcile varying perspectives into a constructive outlet
for the progression of scientific research on corruption. Our objectives are
to cultivate underdeveloped perspectives and broaden the trajectory of
corruption discourse, expand collaborative opportunities across profes-
sional and disciplinary boundaries, maintain independence against institu-
tional constraints on membership eligibility, research, and policy priorities.
The overarching goal of our program is to enhance the quality of scientific
research on corruption, its sources and consequences as well as on good
governance with the ambition to boost its application in the policymaking
and implementation domains.
We are all very grateful to Palgrave Macmillan for supporting this book
project enthusiastically from the beginning, in particular the series editors
Dan Hough and Paul M. Heywood, who guided us through all stages of
the publication process. Moreover, we would like to thank our Advisory
Board including Jean Ensminger (California Institute of Technology),
Paul Heywood (University of Nottingham), Johann Graf Lambsdorff
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(University of Passau), in particular Bo Rothstein (University of Oxford)—
who has accompanied us from the beginning—Luis de Sousa (University
of Lisbon), Matthew C. Stephenson (Harvard Law School), and Janine
Wedel (George Mason University) who are giving us meaningful support
on a regular basis.
Special thanks to Jessica Flakne, Stefanie Hinz, and Georg Plattner for
their helpful comments and thorough proofreading, Jennifer Rehrmann
and André Schmitz for their valuable assistance in formatting the manu-
script, and all the other people who supported us to get this book
published.
Tel Aviv, Israel Ina Kubbe
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Introduction 1
Ina Kubbe and Annika Engelbert
Part I How Social Norms Shape Our Understanding of
Corruption 11
Democratic Norms, Political Money, and Corruption 13
Michael Johnston
A Social Psychological View on the Social Norms
of Corruption 31
Nils C. Köbis, Daniel Iragorri-Carter, and Christopher Starke
Micro-perspectives on the Gender–Corruption Link 53
Amy C. Alexander
Religiosity and Corruption 69
Patty Zakaria
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viii CONTENTS
The Role of Mediated Scandals in the Definition
of Anti-corruption Norms 91
Sofia Wickberg
Part II Norms and Corruption from Country-Specific
Perspectives 113
Caught Between Liberation and Liberalism 115
Thomas A. Koelble
Anti-poverty Programs and Vote-Buying Strategies 133
Flávio Eiró
Let’s Play: Bribery Games in the US and Germany 153
Ina Kubbe
Corruption, Social Norms and Everyday Life in Uzbekistan 187
Rustamjon Urinboyev and Måns Svensson
Integrity Building and Social Norms in Kosovo’s
Municipalities 211
David Jackson
Part III Norms and the Global Anti-corruption Framework 239
What is the “Anti-corruption” Norm in Global Politics? 241
Ellen Gutterman and Mathis Lohaus
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Political Funding
Regulations 269
Vit Simral
CONTENT S ix
The Culture Variable Vis-à-Vis Anti-bribery Law 291
Qingxiu Bu
The Art of Missing the Point: FIFA and the Control of
Corruption 329
Dan Hough and William R. Heaston
A Case Study of an EU Procurement Process in an African
Country 347
Peter Stiernstedt and Mark Button
Index 367
