[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":86},["ShallowReactive",2],{"author-371":3,"author-team-371":6,"author-work-371":7},{"id":4,"name":5,"image":6},371,"Tharcisse Gatwa",null,{"publications":8,"news":85},[9,40,63],{"id":10,"title":11,"slug":12,"image":13,"type":14,"date_published":16,"publisher":17,"summary":6,"body":18,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":19,"countries":21,"tags":31},1842,"Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens","petty-corruption-public-sector-comparative-study-three-east-african-countries-through","4bc5fb34-b953-48d6-8727-a9a2200a2327",[15],"Article","2020-08-19","African Studies","This article presents comparative evidence about the relevance of behavioural drivers in relation to petty corruption in three East African countries. It discusses the potential to incorporate behavioural insights into anti-corruption policy-making.\n\nPersistently high levels of bureaucratic corruption prevail in many countries across the African continent. This along with the limited effectiveness of conventional anti-corruption prescriptions call for a contextualised understanding of the multiple factors determining corruption-related decision-making.\n\nAdopting a behavioural lens involves accounting for the human factor as it relates to the effects of sociality and social constructs on propensities for corruption. As such, this novel approach complements the literature that has sought to understand corruption on the basis of political, economic, and institutional drivers and constraints.\n\nField research conducted in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda found evidence for such behavioural drivers, showing that citizens are swayed by social pressures and beliefs that ultimately spur petty corruption by endorsing associated maladaptive practices. Sustained by social norms of group solidarity and reciprocity and legitimised by commonly shared perceptions of corruption as the norm, the research points to a problematic overlap of the public (formal) and the socio-cultural (informal) spheres.\n\nBy adding a behavioural dimension to the study of the drivers of corruption, this article seeks to contribute towards the development of more effective anti-corruption policy formulation that acknowledges the pitfalls attached to behavioural factors that conventional anti-corruption prescriptions have largely failed to address.\n\nThe article was published in the open-access African Studies journal on 19 August 2020.",[20],"English",[22,25,28],{"countries_id":23},{"name":24},"Tanzania",{"countries_id":26},{"name":27},"Uganda",{"countries_id":29},{"name":30},"Rwanda",[32,36],{"tags_id":33},{"id":34,"name":35},973,"Corruption",{"tags_id":37},{"id":38,"name":39},848,"Behavioural science",{"id":41,"title":42,"slug":43,"image":44,"type":45,"date_published":47,"publisher":48,"summary":6,"body":49,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":50,"countries":51,"tags":54},1953,"Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Rwanda","informal-governance-and-corruption-transcending-principal-agent-and-collective-1","e74f6c3a-a5cf-49f7-8940-a130e540af28",[15,46],"Report","2018-01-01","Basel Institute on Governance","This Rwanda country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. \n\nThe project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. \n\nThe comparative research design involves seven countries from two geopolitical groups East Africa and Post-Soviet countries as follows:\n\n\n- East Africa: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda\n- Post-Soviet countries: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia\n\n\nThe goal of the research is to produce evidence for the relevance of informality in support of the ‘localisation’ of anticorruption strategies and promoting the development of a new generation of policies that may harness the transformative potential of local patterns of informality.\n\nSee the research findings on the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\u002Fresearch-projects\u002Finformal-governance\">Informal Governance website\u003C\u002Fa>.",[20],[52],{"countries_id":53},{"name":30},[55,59],{"tags_id":56},{"id":57,"name":58},1373,"Corruption prevention",{"tags_id":60},{"id":61,"name":62},1309,"Informality",{"id":64,"title":65,"slug":66,"image":67,"type":68,"date_published":69,"publisher":70,"summary":6,"body":71,"area":6,"programme":6,"languages":72,"countries":73,"tags":80},1962,"Behavioural influences on attitudes towards petty corruption: a study of social norms, automatic thinking and mental models in Rwanda","behavioural-influences-attitudes-towards-petty-corruption-study-social-norms-automatic","f393a183-f64c-4014-8f01-95ad406fb96d",[46],"2017-12-01","UK Department for International Development (DFID) through its East Africa Research Fund (EARF)","The UK Department for International Development (DFID), through its East Africa Research Fund (EARF), commissioned the Basel Institute on Governance to conduct the research project “Corruption, Social Norms and Behaviours in East Africa” aiming at shedding light into those “[behavioural] factors that influence the propensity for poor people to engage in, resist and report ‘corrupt transactions’” in three East African countries, namely, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.\n\nThis report presents the main findings from the field research activities for the case of Rwanda, which focused on the health and police sectors.",[20],[74,76,78],{"countries_id":75},{"name":30},{"countries_id":77},{"name":24},{"countries_id":79},{"name":27},[81,83],{"tags_id":82},{"id":38,"name":39},{"tags_id":84},{"id":57,"name":58},[],1784638687752]