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来源类型 | Chatham House Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria: A Social Norms Approach to Connecting Society and Institutions | |
Dr Leena Koni Hoffmann; Raj Navanit Patel | |
发表日期 | 2017-05-17 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Anti-corruption efforts could be made significantly more effective through new ways of understanding why people engage in the practice. |
摘要 | That corruption is a destructive and complex practice is openly acknowledged in Nigeria, yet it remains ubiquitous in the functioning of society and economic life. Acts of diversion of federal and state revenue, business and investment capital, and foreign aid, as well as the personal incomes of Nigerian citizens, contribute to a hollowing out of the country’s public institutions and the degradation of basic services. This report explores corruption in Nigeria as a collective practice – one that is primarily an aggregate of individual behaviours that are sustained by particular beliefs and expectations. Careful understanding of the factors that drive relevant behaviours should be a critical component of government actions to reduce corruption. Identifying the specific social drivers of specific collective practices is key to designing targeted and effective policy interventions to change those practices. This is because not all collective practices, regardless of how pernicious, are driven by a social norm. The findings in this report present new evidence of the social beliefs and expectations that influence some day-to-day forms of corruption in Nigeria:
The report proposes the following policy approaches:
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区域 | Africa ; Nigeria |
URL | https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/central-and-eastern-europe-and-sub-saharan-africa-prospects-sustained-re-engagement |
来源智库 | Chatham House (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/49633 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dr Leena Koni Hoffmann,Raj Navanit Patel. Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria: A Social Norms Approach to Connecting Society and Institutions. 2017. |
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