Corruption Intentions Among Prospective Elites in Ghana: An Economy of Esteem

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dc.contributor.authorTankebe, J.
dc.contributor.authorKarstedt, S.
dc.contributor.authorAdu-Poku, S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-17T19:07:20Z
dc.date.available2024-05-17T19:07:20Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractBesides its multiple harms, corruption undermines the rule of law and impedes the effective func tioning of criminal justice institutions. It involves both elites in bending rules and laws as well as police at the bottom of the hierarchy asking for bribes. We analyze corruption intentions within the framework of Brennan and Pettit’s “economy of esteem,” using three main conceptual frameworks: attachment to kinship groups, materialistic orientations, and deterrence. We draw on data from a survey of 530 university students in Ghana to examine predictors of corruption intentions of prospective elites. Our prospective elites were more inclined to resort to influence peddling rather than to pay bribes directly. We find that attitudinal patterns indicative of esteem predict intentions to engage in corrupt exchanges across different agencies and contexts—police, procurement for government, and abuse of power—as well as different types of action, whether bribe payment or nepotism. In contrast, citizenly pride (and self-esteem) motivates integrity across all types of corrupt exchange. Deterrence, in terms of certainty, had a more consistently negative impact on intentions to engage in nepotism than in bribe paying and acceptance, with public procurement being the exception; no effect was found for stigma, and only police nepotism was an exception to the oth erwise non-significant effects of severity.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1177/1057567718799827
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/41893
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Criminal Justice Reviewen_US
dc.subjectcorruptionen_US
dc.subjecteconomy of esteemen_US
dc.subjectprimordialismen_US
dc.subjectmaterialismen_US
dc.subjectdeterrenceen_US
dc.titleCorruption Intentions Among Prospective Elites in Ghana: An Economy of Esteemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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