The Integrity of Corrupt States: Graft as an Informal State Institution

Author:

Darden Keith1

Affiliation:

1. Yale University,

Abstract

This article argues that corrupt practices such as bribery and embezzlement, which scholars have previously assumed to be evidence of the breakdown of the state, may reinforce the state's administrative hierarchies under certain conditions. Drawing on a cross-national analysis of 132 countries and a detailed examination of the informal institutions of official graft in Ukraine, the article finds that where graft is systematically tracked, monitored, and granted by state leaders as an informal payment in exchange for compliance, it provides both an added incentive to obey leaders' directives and the potent sanction of criminal prosecution in the event of disobedience. Where graft is informally institutionalized in this way, it provides the basis for state organizations that are effective at collecting taxes, maintaining public order, and repressing political opposition but that may undermine the development of liberal politics.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science

Reference53 articles.

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