Institutional Corruption Paper

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Institutional corruption is manifest when there is a systemic and strategic influence which is legal, or even currently ethical, that undermines the institution’s effectiveness by diverting it from its purpose or weakening its ability to achieve its purpose, including, to the extent relevant to its purpose, weakening either the public’s trust in that institution or the institution’s inherent trustworthiness.?? Systemic and strategic influence. There are plenty of influences that weaken an institution’s effectiveness or performance. Laziness, for example. But we are not interested in every source of inefficiency. Our focus is upon a subset of those inefficiencies: influences that are systematic – meaning regular and predictable – and strategic

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