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We let students play a corruption game, embedded into a variant of the ultimatum game. Those allotted the role of public servants chose between whistleblowing, opportunism and reciprocity by delivery (of a contract) and those acting as businesspeople chose how to frame the game and whether to blow the whistle. While opportunism and abstaining from whistleblowing is the Nash equilibrium, another likely outcome was that businesspeople allocate resources to punishing public servants for non-delivery, exhibiting a preference for negative reciprocity. Anticipating this, public servants might tend to reciprocate or blow the whistle upfront. Female public servants were more inclined to behave opportunistically; female businesspeople were less engaged in negative reciprocity. This corroborates a favorable role of women in anticorruption. Businesspeople who strongly preferred a corrupt framing of the game and obtained a form with corrupt wording were more willing to punish non-delivering public servants. This operates against camouflaging a bribe as a gift, because gifts fail to signal negative reciprocity. -- Corruption ; ultimatum game ; whistleblowing ; gender ; signaling ; trust

Cover -- Contents -- Preface - Will McMahon, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Very British Corruption - David Whyte -- Part I: Neoliberalism and Corruption -- 1. Moving Beyond a Narrow Definition of Corruption - David Beetham -- 2. The New Normal: Moral Economies in the 'Age of Fraud' - Jorg Wiegratz -- 3. Neoliberalism, Politics and Institutional Corruption: Against the 'Institutional Malaise' Hypothesis - David Miller -- Part II: Corruption in Policing -- 4. Policed by Consent? The Myth and the Betrayal - Phil Scraton -- 5. Hillsborough: The Long Struggle to Expose Police Corruption - Sheila Coleman -- 6. Justice Denied: Police Accountability and the Killing of Mark Duggan - Joanna Gilmore and Waqas Tufail -- Part III: Corruption in Government and Public Institutions -- 7. British State Torture: From 'Search and Try' to 'Hide and Lie' - Paul O'Connor -- 8. The Return of the Repressed: Secrets, Lies, Denial and 'Historial' Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Scandals - Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin -- 9. Politics, Government and Corruption: The Case of the Private Finance Initiative - Michael Mair and Paul Jones -- 10. Revolving-Door Politics and Corruption - Stuart Wilks-Heeg -- Part IV: Corruption in Finance and the Corporate Sector -- 11. On Her Majesty's Secrecy Service - John Christensen -- 12. Accounting for Corruption in the 'Big Four' Accountancy Firms - Prem Sikka -- 13. Corporate Theft and Impunity in Financial Services - Steve Tombs -- 14. High Pay and Corruption - Luke Hildyard -- Contributors -- Index.

Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play--driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good

"This book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which caused international concern and personal tragedy for the perpetrators. There is an overview of plant, animal and human cheating, providing a background to the focus on Science. This demands a special form of truth in that claims need to be substantiated by repetition in independent laboratories to confirm that the claims work. The nature of originality is examined in art and Science. An attempt has been made to determine the background and motives for cheating in Science in the certain knowledge that it will be unmasked leading to scandal. Advice is given to the young Scientist and suggestions have been made as to how fraud in Science could be reduced by more regulated supervision. There is a need to revise the regulations and assessment of claims of originality and the whole review process of journals to avoid publishing fake data. This text is unusual in focusing on three well-documented cases. The data should not have been published in high impact journals if more rigorous review had been made. Journals should require independent repetition of claims that seem to be "too good to be true". This little book should be of considerable interest to young scientists, historians of science and editors of scientific journals. The general reader might find it fascinating to learn how science works or does not work"--

This is an interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms by which power corrupts. It incorporates political theory, organizational studies and cognitive science. In particular, it introduces advances in the field of cognitive psychology, which it uses to examine the effects of institutionalized power on how we think.