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Identifying Corruption Risks In The Defense And Security Sector: Empirical Evidence Using The Government Defense Anti-Corruption Index

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  • Oliver Cover

    (Transparency International, London)

  • Saad Mustafa

    (Transparency International, London)

Abstract

This article contributes to the debate on conceptualizing corruption by suggesting that sector-specific typologies of corruption risks are useful heuristics that encourage understanding of corruption without attempting to define it in a way that is inherently contestable or inappropriately succinct. To develop this position, this article reflects on the difficulties in trying to define corruption in both general terms and within the context of the defense and security sector. It then details a corruption risk typology in use in the sector, explains how it was used to provide the theoretical backdrop for a global index, and then submits the typology’s five main risk areas to empirical testing using that same index’s results. The models that result show that this typology’s risk areas display sufficient internal coherence for its key risk areas to be of use not only to practitioners, but also to the sector analyst and academic attentive to conceptual concerns.

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  • Oliver Cover & Saad Mustafa, 2014. "Identifying Corruption Risks In The Defense And Security Sector: Empirical Evidence Using The Government Defense Anti-Corruption Index," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, EPS Publishing, vol. 9(2), pages 27-33, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:epc:journl:v:9:y:2014:i:2:p:27-33
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    1. Zulkefli Muhamad Hanapiyah* & Salina Daud & Wan Mohammad Taufik Wan Abdullah & Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi, 2018. "Effect of Training and Development, Recruitment and Selection, and Internal Control Policy on Corruption Risk," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 995-1006:5.
    2. repec:arp:tjssrr:2019:p:128-139 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Lenka Veselovská & Ján Závadský & Zuzana Závadská, 2020. "Mitigating bribery risks to strengthen the corporate social responsibility in accordance with the ISO 37001," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(4), pages 1972-1988, July.

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    Keywords

    Definitions; corruption; defense; national security;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War

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