Causes of Corruption: Testing Competing Hypotheses Margit Tavits Nuffield College University of Oxford [email protected] March 23, 2005 Abstract In this paper I argue that for both public officials and citizens, the decision to engage in corrupt behavior is primarily influenced by a personal definition of corruption and individual perceptions of how widespread corrupt activities are (imitation). This explanation borrows from the social learning theory developed by sociologists to understand the causes of various sorts of deviant behavior. I will also show that one of the most popular alternative explanations in political science research on compliance – political and social trust – remains less efficient for explaining an individual’s decision to engage in corrupt exchange. 1
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