What is it about?

This article explains the shortcomings of mainstream approaches to anti-corruption efforts, ranging from creating indices to anti-corruption agencies to voting. We explain that culture matters in the sense of the stickiness of informal norms, rules, and habits, and therefore a new approach is needed, one that is directed towards changing culture, not just formal rules.

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Why is it important?

This article suggests a new approach to reduce corruption.

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I hope that this article spurs a conversation around why anti-corruption efforts have so far been very limited in success. The cases that follow in the special ed. show how much a deeper and long-term approach is needed.

Dr Anil Hira
Simon Fraser University

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This page is a summary of: Broken Windows: Why Culture Matters in Corruption Reform, Journal of Developing Societies, February 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0169796x15609710.
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