The Politics of Anti-Corruption: Bureaucratic Sabotage and Collusion

• In Event: Bureaucracy, State and What it Does to People

Brief Overview

A model of bureaucratic corruption as a political tool. Bureaucrats may sabotage tough incumbents by inflating graft or collude with lenient ones, causing anti-corruption policies to backfire and creating a non-monotonic path to reform.

Author

• Anna Denisenko, University of Chicago