Corruption: Finding It and Fixing It

Harvard HKS

Despite the adoption of electoral democracy across all regions of the world, charges of corruption seem to be arising everywhere. But is corruption really on the rise? Which countries are the most corrupt? Do highly corrupt countries share any common characteristics that we can identify and perhaps mitigate? Corruption clearly has social costs ranging from diversion of funds for public programs to undermining of public trust in government. Yet, few recent attempts to…