Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption?
Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption?
Grimot Nane
Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Studies
Corruption is unsatisfactorily defined as the “misuse of public office for private gain” because it suggests corruption only happens in the public sector [1]. But the definition also indicates that the power of [high] public office is the starting point for corruption. Corruption is characteristically a top-down not bottom-up phenomenon. Read More “Are Leaders or Followers to Blame for Corruption?”