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Questions for Thought and Discussion

• What is corruption?
• How does corruption differ from organised crime?
• Is corruption the same as corporate crime?
• List five of the most serious (negative) effects of corruption
• What are the best ways to measure corruption – or are all methods flawed?
• Can corruption ever be justified?
• List and explain up to five of the psycho-social explanations of corruption
• What cultural factors help to explain apparently different rates of corruption around the world?
• Does inequality correlate highly with corruption?
• Do high levels of poverty appear to be related to high levels of corruption?
• Does ‘big government’ mean more corruption?
• Are authoritarian states generally more corrupt than democratic ones?
• What can and should states do to counter corruption?
• What can and should international organisations, such as the United Nations or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, do to counter corruption?
• What role does or should the media play in combatting corruption?
• Is there much that ordinary citizens can do to reduce corruption?

Other Books by the Author

• The Policy Process in Communist States: Industrial Administration and Politics (Sage, 1981)
• Politics in the Communist World (Oxford University Press, 1986)
• The End of Communist Power: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis (Oxford University Press, 1993)
• Post-Communism (Polity Press and Duke University Press, 1997)
• Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism (Duke University Press, 2006)
• Communism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Post-Communist Democratization: Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries (with John Dryzek), (Cambridge University Press, 2002)