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This is critical to understand due to the detrimental impact of corrupt practices on equality, human rights, peace, and the rule of law. A significant body of research has shown that many anticorruption initiatives do not produce the expected effect, or they achieve results that fade after the intervention ceases. Seeking to understand how to improve anticorruption outcomes, scholars have turned to causal explanations of the persistence of corruption ranging from institutional settings and individual motives to informal practices and social norms.\n\nThis article explores the intersection of social norms and corruption as a contribution to improving anticorruption programming. It explains how norms impact our conceptual understanding of corruption and the vicious cycle that exists between corrupt practices and norms. Grounded in the belief that programming and social norm diagnosis need to be contextually driven, we lay out the nascent research on changing social norms that drive corruption and the consequences of ignoring them.","","English",2024,"Annual Review of Political Science","2024-04-19",false,[21,22],"Prevention","Research and Innovation",[],[25],{"url":26,"caption":27},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.annualreviews.org\u002Fcontent\u002Fjournals\u002F10.1146\u002Fannurev-polisci-051120-095535#","View article at Annual Reviews",[29],"Prevention Research and Innovation",[15],[32],"Article",[],[35],{"id":36,"publications_id":37,"tags_id":54},4758,{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":8,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":9,"nid":10,"slug":11,"image":7,"title":12,"body":13,"citation":14,"language":15,"year":16,"publisher":17,"date_published":18,"external":19,"topic":40,"link_internal":41,"link_external":42,"featured":19,"topics":44,"languages":45,"type":46,"area":7,"programme":7,"websites":7,"summary":7,"pdf_text":7,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"countries":47,"tags":48,"pdf":49,"authors":50},"03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6",[21,22],[],[43],{"url":26,"caption":27},[29],[15],[32],[],[36],[],[51,52,53],2551,2552,2553,{"id":55,"name":56},848,"Behavioural science",[],[59,75,92],{"id":51,"publications_id":60,"authors_id":72},{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":8,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":9,"nid":10,"slug":11,"image":7,"title":12,"body":13,"citation":14,"language":15,"year":16,"publisher":17,"date_published":18,"external":19,"topic":61,"link_internal":62,"link_external":63,"featured":19,"topics":65,"languages":66,"type":67,"area":7,"programme":7,"websites":7,"summary":7,"pdf_text":7,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"countries":68,"tags":69,"pdf":70,"authors":71},[21,22],[],[64],{"url":26,"caption":27},[29],[15],[32],[],[36],[],[51,52,53],{"id":73,"name":74,"position":7,"image":7},537,"Ina Kubbe",{"id":52,"publications_id":76,"authors_id":88},{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":8,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":9,"nid":10,"slug":11,"image":7,"title":12,"body":13,"citation":14,"language":15,"year":16,"publisher":17,"date_published":18,"external":19,"topic":77,"link_internal":78,"link_external":79,"featured":19,"topics":81,"languages":82,"type":83,"area":7,"programme":7,"websites":7,"summary":7,"pdf_text":7,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"countries":84,"tags":85,"pdf":86,"authors":87},[21,22],[],[80],{"url":26,"caption":27},[29],[15],[32],[],[36],[],[51,52,53],{"id":89,"name":90,"position":7,"image":91},295,"Claudia Baez Camargo","efaca248-6b57-4e2e-af40-614056eb022c",{"id":53,"publications_id":93,"authors_id":105},{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":8,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":9,"nid":10,"slug":11,"image":7,"title":12,"body":13,"citation":14,"language":15,"year":16,"publisher":17,"date_published":18,"external":19,"topic":94,"link_internal":95,"link_external":96,"featured":19,"topics":98,"languages":99,"type":100,"area":7,"programme":7,"websites":7,"summary":7,"pdf_text":7,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"countries":101,"tags":102,"pdf":103,"authors":104},[21,22],[],[97],{"url":26,"caption":27},[29],[15],[32],[],[36],[],[51,52,53],{"id":106,"name":107,"position":7,"image":7},412,"Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church",[109,154,219,263,310,374,417,474,532,589],{"id":110,"slug":111,"title":112,"status":6,"nid":113,"year":114,"body":115,"external":19,"topic":116,"language":15,"type":117,"date_published":119,"image":120,"citation":14,"publisher":121,"link_internal":122,"link_external":132,"authors":133,"countries":138,"tags":139,"pdf":146,"topics":148,"featured":149,"languages":150,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":151,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":152,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":153},2387,"qg35","Quick Guide 35: Sexual corruption",2745,2025,"Sexual corruption is a serious and under-recognised form of both corruption and sexual abuse. A particularly harmful form of corruption, it is difficult to measure and prosecute, and can have devastating physical and psychological impacts on survivors\u002Fvictims.\n\nAs it disproportionately affects women and marginalised groups, sexual corruption has an important impact on the advancement of gender equality and minority rights.\n\nThis Quick Guide explains the basics of sexual corruption: what it is, its prevalence and why it persists. It takes a brief look at strategies to combat sexual corruption, with a focus on challenging the underlying social norms that help to sustain it.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21,22],[118],"Quick Guide","2025-01-27","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Feaef85d0-af6f-4484-8800-2c0fb0bfb039?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[123,126,129],{"url":124,"caption":125},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Quick%20Guide"," View all Quick Guides",{"url":127,"caption":128},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-10-social-norms-and-corruption","For more on social norms, see our Quick Guide 10: Social norms and corruption",{"url":130,"caption":131},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fresearch-case-6","For more on the prevalence of sexual corruption, see Research Case Study 6: Sextortion – an unaddressed form of corruption and sexual abuse",[],[134],{"authors_id":135},{"id":136,"name":137},557,"Jude Schönberg",[],[140,144],{"tags_id":141},{"id":142,"name":143},973,"Corruption",{"tags_id":145},{"id":55,"name":56},[147],2426,[29],true,[15],"2025-01-27T11:05:26.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:50.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg35",{"id":155,"slug":156,"title":157,"status":6,"nid":158,"year":159,"body":160,"external":19,"topic":161,"language":15,"type":163,"date_published":164,"image":165,"citation":14,"publisher":166,"link_internal":167,"link_external":177,"authors":181,"countries":192,"tags":201,"pdf":212,"topics":213,"featured":19,"languages":215,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":216,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":217,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":218},2221,"informal-networks-investment-qualitative-analysis-uganda-and-tanzania","Informal networks as investment: A qualitative analysis from Uganda and Tanzania",2277,2022,"Published in the peer-reviewed journal *Governance*, this paper interprets informal networks as investments made by citizens and business people to cope with the public sphere. Informal networks often orchestrate corruption, connecting public and private actors. The paper aims to understand their key characteristics, scopes, and functional roles.\n\nTen mini case studies from Tanzania and Uganda are studied. The research applies narrative analysis to explore the experiences of citizens, entrepreneurs, and low-level public officials, who built informal networks as a problem-solving mechanism. It uses a grounded theory approach. The findings serve as working hypotheses about variables and patterns emerging from the bottom-up analysis.\n\nThe paper outlines:\n\n\n- Whether there are distinct types of informal networks associated with particular types of corruption;\n- How, why and by whom these networks are built;\n- Whether different individuals play specific roles;\n- The unwritten expectations and norms that govern such networks.\n\n\nThe results highlight critical implications for anti-corruption practice, showing, for example, how this can be strengthened by shifting the intervention unit from individuals to networks.\n\n### About this article\n\nThis peer-reviewed article is based on extensive field research and analysis conducted by the Basel Institute's Public Governance team in Tanzania and Uganda. The research was funded by UK Aid under the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE) programme. See the links below for the open-access research outputs, including a full research report and two sets of case studies.",[162],"Public Governance",[32],"2022-08-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F1771fed4-0a6d-4050-88ce-494e877fab4e?width=600&height=840","Governance (Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the IPSA Structure and Organization of Government Committee)",[168,171,174],{"url":169,"caption":170},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Finformal-networks-investment-east-africa"," View open access research report: Informal networks as investment in East Africa",{"url":172,"caption":173},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcase-studies-tanzania-gi-ace-research-informal-networks-and-corruption"," View case studies from Tanzania",{"url":175,"caption":176},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcase-studies-uganda-gi-ace-research-informal-networks-and-corruption"," View case studies from Uganda",[178],{"url":179,"caption":180},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1111\u002Fgove.12726","View peer-reviewed article on Wiley Online Library",[182,184,188],{"authors_id":183},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":185},{"id":186,"name":187},304,"Jacopo Costa",{"authors_id":189},{"id":190,"name":191},359,"Lucy Koechlin",[193,197],{"countries_id":194},{"id":195,"name":196},224,"Tanzania",{"countries_id":198},{"id":199,"name":200},226,"Uganda",[202,206,208],{"tags_id":203},{"id":204,"name":205},982,"Anti-corruption",{"tags_id":207},{"id":55,"name":56},{"tags_id":209},{"id":210,"name":211},1309,"Informality",[],[214],"Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[15],"2022-09-06T14:10:21.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:59.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Finformal-networks-investment-qualitative-analysis-uganda-and-tanzania",{"id":220,"slug":221,"title":222,"status":6,"nid":223,"year":159,"body":224,"external":19,"topic":225,"language":15,"type":227,"date_published":229,"image":230,"citation":14,"publisher":231,"link_internal":232,"link_external":233,"authors":237,"countries":244,"tags":245,"pdf":256,"topics":258,"featured":19,"languages":259,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":260,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":261,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":262},2195,"wp-39","Working Paper 39: Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade – Problem analysis and state of the field review",2210,"This Problem Analysis is a review of the efficacy and opportunities for using social norm and behaviour change (SNBC) approaches to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and other natural resource-related corruption.\n\nBehavioural science is a rich and expansive field that has received prominent coverage in recent years for the promise it offers as a foundational yet underutilised approach to achieving biodiversity conservation. Extensive literature shows how SNBC initiatives can help combat diverse corruption problems, although for those related to natural resource management the evidence for doing so is sparse.\n\nThis report synthesises the available information and suggests the next steps to redress this current lack of evidence. It seeks to:\n\n\n- Understand what SNBC approaches might or might not work in fighting corruption.\n- Identify entry points for designing SNBC interventions that can effectively reduce corruption related to IWT.\n\n\n### About and acknowledgements\n\nThis Analysis has been produced in association with the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project. The TNRC project is working to improve biodiversity outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming. Learn more at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftnrcproject.org\">tnrcproject.org\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nThis publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or individual TNRC consortium members.\n\nThe publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nSuggested citation: Baez Camargo, Claudia, and Gayle Burgess. 2022. “Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade: Problem analysis and state of the field review.” Working Paper 39, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\u003C\u002Fa>",[226,162],"Green Corruption",[32,228],"Report","2022-06-01","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F9f6e8d24-9468-43cb-949d-bdbd25d35adb?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; TRAFFIC",[],[234],{"url":235,"caption":236},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.zoom.us\u002Fwebinar\u002Fregister\u002FWN_VUh1-aisS-Su1Cuwc8vWlA"," Register for virtual event - 27 June 2022",[238,240],{"authors_id":239},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":241},{"id":242,"name":243},501,"Gayle Burgess",[],[246,250,254],{"tags_id":247},{"id":248,"name":249},804,"Natural resources",{"tags_id":251},{"id":252,"name":253},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":255},{"id":55,"name":56},[257],2234,[226,214],[15],"2022-06-09T13:42:35.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:04.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39",{"id":264,"slug":265,"title":266,"status":6,"nid":267,"year":159,"body":268,"external":19,"topic":269,"language":15,"type":270,"date_published":271,"image":272,"citation":14,"publisher":273,"link_internal":274,"link_external":281,"authors":285,"countries":298,"tags":299,"pdf":304,"topics":305,"featured":19,"languages":306,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":307,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":308,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":309},1766,"determinants-and-drivers-wildlife-trafficking-qualitative-analysis-uganda","Determinants and drivers of wildlife trafficking: A qualitative analysis in Uganda",2163,"The article analyses drivers and determinants of illicit wildlife trade (IWT), targeting those factors that support the participation of individuals in poaching and transportation of wildlife goods.\n\nThese factors are often explained in economic and institutional terms. Recently, scholars have started to recognise the importance of socio-cultural and behavioural drivers in influencing the individual propensity to engage in wildlife trafficking. The goal is clarifying how behavioural drivers may spur individuals to engage in these phenomena. The research provides further understanding on why wildlife trafficking happens by focusing on the role of the socio-economic context, the broader governance environment, and behavioural drivers associated with sociality and stereotypes in spurring participation in IWT.\n\nThe research is based on fieldwork in Uganda, specifically on 47 interviews with Ugandan-based and international anti-IWT experts and eight focus group discussions with wildlife conservation and anti-corruption experts in Kampala, members of reformed poachers’ networks in Western Uganda, and individuals living around a wildlife habitat in northern Uganda.\n\nThe findings highlight that illicit wildlife trade is spurred by the wish for financial resources (economic factors) and weak governance (quality of governance), and it is justified by mental models, that is, the behavioural drivers such as socio-contextual and normative mechanisms. The research shows the importance of reflecting on the role that behavioural drivers, including sociality and shared understandings of IWT, play in influencing the propensity of individuals to engage in poaching and the early stages of wildlife trafficking.\n\n### Acknowledgement and citation\n\nThis publication arose out of a collaboration between the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\">Public Governance\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> teams. The research presented in this publication forms part of a two-year project aimed at stopping corruption from fuelling illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia.\n\nThis research was funded by PMI IMPACT, a grant award initiative of Philip Morris International (PMI). In the performance of their research, the authors maintained full independence from PMI. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of PMI. Neither PMI, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.\n\nCitation: Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez-Camargo, Jacopo Costa & Robert Lugolobi (2022) Determinants and Drivers of Wildlife Trafficking: A Qualitative Analysis in Uganda, *Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy*, DOI: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381\">10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381\u003C\u002Fa>",[226,162],[32],"2022-01-13","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0f25db65-39c2-4fad-babd-d553fd271acc?width=600&height=840","Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy",[275,278],{"url":276,"caption":277},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-33-worms-eye-view-wildlife-trafficking-uganda-path-least-resistance"," Related publication: Working Paper 33: A worm’s-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance",{"url":279,"caption":280},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpolicy-brief-5-curbing-wildlife-trafficking-uganda-lessons-practitioners"," Related publication: Policy Brief 5: Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda: lessons for practitioners",[282],{"url":283,"caption":284},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381","Access article via Taylor & Francis Online",[286,290,292,294],{"authors_id":287},{"id":288,"name":289},303,"Saba Kassa",{"authors_id":291},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":293},{"id":186,"name":187},{"authors_id":295},{"id":296,"name":297},358,"Robert Lugolobi",[],[300,302],{"tags_id":301},{"id":252,"name":253},{"tags_id":303},{"id":55,"name":56},[],[226,214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:21.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:05.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fdeterminants-and-drivers-wildlife-trafficking-qualitative-analysis-uganda",{"id":311,"slug":312,"title":313,"status":6,"nid":314,"year":315,"body":316,"external":19,"topic":317,"language":15,"type":318,"date_published":319,"image":320,"citation":14,"publisher":121,"link_internal":321,"link_external":325,"authors":329,"countries":350,"tags":351,"pdf":362,"topics":369,"featured":19,"languages":370,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":371,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":372,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":373},1777,"corrupting-environment-insights-corruption-environment-and-illicit-trade","Corrupting the Environment: insights on corruption, the environment and illicit trade",2138,2021,"This collection of insights on corruption, the environment and illicit trade emerges from the monthly \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\u002Fcorrupting-environment\">Corrupting the Environment\u003C\u002Fa> webinar series between December 2020 and August 2021. \n\nA joint initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the series brought together leading voices from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society. In lively panel discussions, they explored critical trends and shared recommendations for addressing the corruption that is destroying our planet and people's opportunities for sustainable development. \n\nThe publications below are adapted from summaries published on the Basel Institute following each event.\n\n ",[226],[32,228],"2021-11-29","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F145440e8-0787-4f97-b6c2-53c5437824e3?width=600&height=840",[322],{"url":323,"caption":324},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fnatural-resource-management-and-environmental-corruption-indonesia-survey-report"," 7: Natural resource management and environmental corruption in Indonesia - the Green Corruption paradox (survey report)",[326],{"url":327,"caption":328},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fplaylist?list=PLYRnhpCcnLP-Ual-E91AOVFugMqDN6z-P"," YouTube playlist: Corrupting the Environment webinar series",[330,334,338,342,346],{"authors_id":331},{"id":332,"name":333},299,"Juhani Grossmann",{"authors_id":335},{"id":336,"name":337},360,"Alexander Berman",{"authors_id":339},{"id":340,"name":341},361,"Taradhinta Suryandari",{"authors_id":343},{"id":344,"name":345},307,"Jonathan Ambrogi",{"authors_id":347},{"id":348,"name":349},296,"Monica Guy",[],[352,354,356,358],{"tags_id":353},{"id":248,"name":249},{"tags_id":355},{"id":55,"name":56},{"tags_id":357},{"id":252,"name":253},{"tags_id":359},{"id":360,"name":361},1193,"Financial investigations",[363,364,365,366,367,368],1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,[226],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:28.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:07.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcorrupting-environment-insights-corruption-environment-and-illicit-trade",{"id":375,"slug":376,"title":377,"status":6,"nid":378,"year":315,"body":379,"external":19,"topic":380,"language":15,"type":381,"date_published":382,"image":383,"citation":14,"publisher":384,"link_internal":385,"link_external":391,"authors":392,"countries":399,"tags":404,"pdf":411,"topics":413,"featured":19,"languages":414,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":415,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":416,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":169},1779,"informal-networks-investment-east-africa","Informal networks as investment in East Africa",2126,"This report presents findings from a research project entitled \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Face.globalintegrity.org\u002Fprojects\u002Finformality\u002F\">Harnessing informality: Designing anti-corruption network interventions and strategic use of legal instruments\u003C\u002Fa>” funded by UK Aid as part of the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (GI-ACE).\n\nThe project follows from a previous research project where the Basel Institute on Governance, in partnership with University College London and SOAS, researched informality and its relationship with corruption and governance in seven countries in East Africa and Central Asia. The findings from that research project suggested that corruption often takes place according to informal, unwritten rules. The findings from the seven countries supported the following observation:\n\n\n“Corruption is most often not the result from the actions of a few, individual rotten apples operating in otherwise healthy governance systems; rather corruption is orchestrated by informal social networks that connect actors in the public and private realms and enable the pursuit of a variety of intransparent, often illicit, goals.”\n\n\nIn our current research project, we have aimed to understand how informal networks that are associated with different types of corruption are exactly articulated, operationalised and managed, with a view to distilling lessons of value to anti-corruption practitioners.\n\nThe present report sheds light on the functioning of informal networks in East Africa, based on evidence collected in Tanzania and Uganda. The report presents evidence, consisting of ten mini-case studies (six from Tanzania and four from Uganda) that describe informal networks associated with bribery and procurement fraud. The 10 cases are also analysed and implications for anti-corruption practice discussed.",[162],[32,228],"2021-11-02","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fe420805b-118f-48cb-8bff-675352716c10?width=600&height=840","Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (GI-ACE)",[386,387,388],{"url":172,"caption":173},{"url":175,"caption":176},{"url":389,"caption":390},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fbribery-isnt-only-an-exchange-of-money-what-new-research-tells-us-about-how-informal-networks-enable-corruption-and-vice-versa-2129"," View blog\u002Fshort summary by Claudia Baez Camargo",[],[393,395,397],{"authors_id":394},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":396},{"id":186,"name":187},{"authors_id":398},{"id":190,"name":191},[400,402],{"countries_id":401},{"id":195,"name":196},{"countries_id":403},{"id":199,"name":200},[405,407,409],{"tags_id":406},{"id":204,"name":205},{"tags_id":408},{"id":55,"name":56},{"tags_id":410},{"id":210,"name":211},[412],1804,[214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:30.000Z","2026-06-02T14:10:29.000Z",{"id":363,"slug":418,"title":419,"status":6,"nid":420,"year":315,"body":421,"external":19,"topic":422,"language":15,"type":423,"date_published":424,"image":425,"citation":14,"publisher":426,"link_internal":427,"link_external":428,"authors":432,"countries":445,"tags":459,"pdf":468,"topics":469,"featured":19,"languages":470,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":471,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":472,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":473},"insiders-corruption-versus-outsiders-ethicality-individual-responses-conflicting","Insider’s corruption versus outsider’s ethicality? Individual responses to conflicting institutional logics",2061,"This article arises from the work of the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\">Public Governance team\u003C\u002Fa> on informal governance. It was produced by research partners at the ESCP Business School (Paris) and the EDC Paris Business School (Courbevoie), France.\n\n### Abstract\n\nIn this article, we seek to understand whether and to what extent the sense of belonging to a powerful network affects individual decision-making in terms of ethicality with regard to a corrupt situation. We study the behaviour of insiders (individuals who belong to a power network, i.e. a network of individuals connected by interpersonal relationships to a person in a position of power) and outsiders in a corrupt versus non-corrupt environments using the theoretical frameworks of institutional logics and informal networks. Our hypotheses were tested with the help of a vignette-based experiment with 464 participants from countries considered as corrupt (Kazakhstan and Russia) and non-corrupt (UK and USA).\n\n### About this research\n\nThis research was funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the British Academy through the British Academy\u002FDFID Anti-Corruption Evidence Program. However, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the British Academy or DFID.\n\nFor more information on the wider project and to download other country findings, see the Basel Institute’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\u002Fresearch-projects\u002Finformal-governance\">Informal Governance website\u003C\u002Fa>.",[162],[32],"2021-07-12","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fe69b6c35-a012-4988-bae5-c9ad6b23ed41?width=600&height=840","The International Journal of Human Resource Management",[],[429],{"url":430,"caption":431},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F09585192.2021.1945652","View article",[433,437,441],{"authors_id":434},{"id":435,"name":436},365,"Maral Muratbekova-Touron",{"authors_id":438},{"id":439,"name":440},366,"Camila Lee Park",{"authors_id":442},{"id":443,"name":444},367,"Mauro Fracarolli Nunes",[446,450,454,458],{"countries_id":447},{"id":448,"name":449},123,"Kazakhstan",{"countries_id":451},{"id":452,"name":453},188,"Russia",{"countries_id":455},{"id":456,"name":457},225,"Ukraine",{"countries_id":7},[460,462,464],{"tags_id":461},{"id":55,"name":56},{"tags_id":463},{"id":210,"name":211},{"tags_id":465},{"id":466,"name":467},1274,"Ethics",[],[214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:42.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:41.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Finsiders-corruption-versus-outsiders-ethicality-individual-responses-conflicting",{"id":475,"slug":476,"title":477,"status":6,"nid":478,"year":479,"body":480,"external":19,"topic":481,"language":15,"type":482,"date_published":483,"image":484,"citation":485,"publisher":486,"link_internal":487,"link_external":488,"authors":491,"countries":512,"tags":521,"pdf":526,"topics":527,"featured":19,"languages":528,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":529,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":530,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":531},1842,"petty-corruption-public-sector-comparative-study-three-east-african-countries-through","Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens",1837,2020,"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.",[162],[32],"2020-08-19","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F4bc5fb34-b953-48d6-8727-a9a2200a2327?width=600&height=840","Claudia Baez-Camargo, Paul Bukuluki, Richard Sambaiga, Tharcisse Gatwa, Saba Kassa & Cosimo Stahl (2020): Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens, African Studies","African Studies",[],[489],{"url":490,"caption":431},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F00020184.2020.1803729",[492,494,498,502,506,508],{"authors_id":493},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":495},{"id":496,"name":497},369,"Paul Bukuluki",{"authors_id":499},{"id":500,"name":501},370,"Richard Sambaiga",{"authors_id":503},{"id":504,"name":505},371,"Tharcisse Gatwa",{"authors_id":507},{"id":288,"name":289},{"authors_id":509},{"id":510,"name":511},354,"Cosimo Stahl",[513,515,517],{"countries_id":514},{"id":195,"name":196},{"countries_id":516},{"id":199,"name":200},{"countries_id":518},{"id":519,"name":520},189,"Rwanda",[522,524],{"tags_id":523},{"id":142,"name":143},{"tags_id":525},{"id":55,"name":56},[],[214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:54:10.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:49.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpetty-corruption-public-sector-comparative-study-three-east-african-countries-through",{"id":533,"slug":534,"title":535,"status":6,"nid":536,"year":537,"body":538,"external":19,"topic":539,"language":15,"type":540,"date_published":542,"image":543,"citation":14,"publisher":544,"link_internal":545,"link_external":546,"authors":550,"countries":567,"tags":574,"pdf":583,"topics":584,"featured":19,"languages":585,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":586,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":587,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":588},1899,"social-norms-and-attitudes-towards-corruption-comparative-insights-east-africa","Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Corruption: Comparative Insights from East Africa",905,2019,"This eye-opening exploration of social norms and attitudes towards corruption appears in Chapter 12 of Ellis, Jane (ed.) *Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law – Exploration across the disciplines*, published by Routledge on 15 May 2019 as part of a series entitled The Law of Financial Crime. See the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2019-05\u002FCorruption, Social Sciences and The Law Flyer (1).pdf\">publisher's flyer\u003C\u002Fa> with full details of the book and a 20% discount code.\n\nMuch of the original material for this chapter comes from a recent Basel Institute research project on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\u002Fresearch-projects#3\">Corruption, Social Norms and Behaviours in East Africa\u003C\u002Fa>, commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through its East Africa Research Fund (EARF).\n\n### Excerpt from the chapter introduction\n\nDespite more than two decades of concerted efforts by the international development community to address corruption, progress remains far from satisfactory, especially in those countries where corruption is endemic and pervasive. Such cases of seemingly entrenched corruption highlight the importance of increasing our understanding about context-specific drivers of corrupt behaviours.\n\nTraditionally, anti-corruption has focused on the incentives and constraints that impinge on individuals’ cost-benefit calculations and decision-making as determined by the law and associated regulatory frameworks. Nevertheless, a growing body of evidence suggests the relevance of more intuitive, automatic, quasi-rational and non-rational decision-making factors that take place in the subconscious mind  and which may be heavily influenced by contextual factors grounded in sociality, collective ways of thinking and culture. \n\nThis chapter presents empirical evidence from the application of a behavioural research perspective to shed light on how collective practices of petty corruption are experienced, understood, and ultimately justified from the perspective of those directly engaging in them.\n ",[162],[32,541],"Book","2019-05-15","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F31d70d89-ef9d-4a61-9089-ee853f831899?width=600&height=840","Routledge",[],[547],{"url":548,"caption":549},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.routledge.com\u002FCorruption-Social-Sciences-and-the-Law-Exploration-across-the-disciplines\u002FEllis\u002Fp\u002Fbook\u002F9780367186418","View book details",[551,553,557,561,563,565],{"authors_id":552},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":554},{"id":555,"name":556},377,"Abel Dufitumukiza",{"authors_id":558},{"id":559,"name":560},378,"Egidius Kamanyi",{"authors_id":562},{"id":288,"name":289},{"authors_id":564},{"id":296,"name":297},{"authors_id":566},{"id":510,"name":511},[568,570,572],{"countries_id":569},{"id":519,"name":520},{"countries_id":571},{"id":195,"name":196},{"countries_id":573},{"id":199,"name":200},[575,577,581],{"tags_id":576},{"id":55,"name":56},{"tags_id":578},{"id":579,"name":580},1373,"Corruption prevention",{"tags_id":582},{"id":204,"name":205},[],[214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:54:46.000Z","2026-05-29T22:23:00.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fsocial-norms-and-attitudes-towards-corruption-comparative-insights-east-africa",{"id":590,"slug":591,"title":592,"status":6,"nid":593,"year":594,"body":595,"external":19,"topic":596,"language":15,"type":597,"date_published":598,"image":599,"citation":600,"publisher":601,"link_internal":602,"link_external":603,"authors":610,"countries":615,"tags":622,"pdf":631,"topics":633,"featured":19,"languages":634,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":38,"date_created":635,"user_updated":39,"date_updated":636,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":637},1928,"informal-governance-comparative-perspectives-co-optation-control-and-camouflage-rwanda","Informal governance: comparative perspectives on co-optation, control and camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda",214,2018,"This article applies a novel conceptual framework to characterise and assess the repertoire of practices used by informal networks to redistribute power and access to resources. These distinct norms and practices are typologised as co-optation, control, and camouflage. Co-optation involves recruitment into the network by means of the reciprocal exchange of favours. Control is about ensuring discipline amongst network members by means of shaming and social isolation. Camouflage refers to the formal facades behind which informality hides and is about protecting and legitimising the network. All three are relevant to a more fine-grained understanding of corruption and its underpinnings.\n\nFindings from our comparative research in three East African countries (Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) suggest that these informal practices are relevant to an understanding of the choices and attitudes of providers and users of public services at the local level. Adopting this analytical lens helps to explain the limited impact of conventional anti-corruption prescriptions and provides a basis to develop alternative strategies that harness the potential of social network dynamics to promote positive anti-corruption outcomes. \n\nThis article was published by the International Development Policy journal in a special issue devoted to African Cities and the Development Conundrum. The full electronic version of the book is available in open access on the International Development Policy Journal website. The paperback version is available for order through Brill. ",[162],[32],"2018-10-01","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fc5a4ca81-d0ce-45a1-8c67-431f151e497d?width=600&height=840","Baez Camargo, C., Koechlin, L. (2018) Informal governance: comparative perspectives on co-optation, control and camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In Ammann, C. and Förster, T. (eds.) African Cities and the Development Conundrum. International Dev","International Development Policy",[],[604,607],{"url":605,"caption":606},"https:\u002F\u002Fjournals.openedition.org\u002Fpoldev\u002F2646","View article in open-access journal",{"url":608,"caption":609},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1163\u002F9789004387942"," Download or order a copy of African Cities book",[611,613],{"authors_id":612},{"id":89,"name":90},{"authors_id":614},{"id":190,"name":191},[616,618,620],{"countries_id":617},{"id":519,"name":520},{"countries_id":619},{"id":195,"name":196},{"countries_id":621},{"id":199,"name":200},[623,625,627,629],{"tags_id":624},{"id":210,"name":211},{"tags_id":626},{"id":579,"name":580},{"tags_id":628},{"id":142,"name":143},{"tags_id":630},{"id":55,"name":56},[632],1977,[214],[15],"2022-04-27T11:55:04.000Z","2026-05-29T22:23:03.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Finformal-governance-comparative-perspectives-co-optation-control-and-camouflage-rwanda",1780676540635]