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Institutional corruption is differentiated from corruption by the institution's willingness to frustrate or slow the work of independent formal inquiries, [1] even after official reports and documentation recognise that such an inquiry is necessary. [2] Institutional corruption is not limited to national-scale institutions.
Thompson is a leading proponent of the institutional approach to political ethics, which gives less attention to individual vices (such as greed and sexual misconduct) and more to institutional ones (such as abuse of power and neglect of accountability). His approach has stimulated new work on institutional corruption. [3]
Her research work is the area of public procurement, anti-corruption, digitalization of the public sector and sustainable development law, with a focus on human rights and sustainable public procurement and the impact of corruption on sustainable procurement. [5] She is the author of 5 books and over 60 peer reviewed academic papers.
Her research built on North's work comparing the relative impacts of preferences and costs on institutional change. [ 5 ] While working on development projects in Kenya, Ensminger became interested in the scope of corruption of World Bank initiatives in the area, and designed methods to quantitate its magnitude.
Robert Vishny is one of the prominent representatives of the school of behavioral finance.His research activities include: market for corporate control; corporate governance around the world; privatization and the role of government in the economy; behavior of institutional investors; behavior of stock prices; the economics of corruption and rent-seeking behavior.
As of 2024, Dias has had five of his research papers retracted, and five other papers have received an expression of concern. [271] [272] Victor Ninov (US), a nuclear chemist formerly at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was dismissed from his position after falsifying his work on the discovery of elements 116 and 118. [273] [274]
More generally, corruption erodes the institutional capacity of government if procedures are disregarded, resources are siphoned off, and public offices are bought and sold. Corruption undermines the legitimacy of government and democratic values such as political trust. Recent evidence suggests that variation in the levels of corruption ...
Authors' institutional interests become sources of conflict when the research might harm the institution's finances or offend the author's superiors. [ 4 ] Many journals require authors to self-declare their conflicts of interest when submitting a paper; they also ask specific questions about conflicts of interest.