Pride and prejudice: Comparative corruption research and the British case

摘要: In recent years, comparative corruption analysis has been fuelled by the growth of international survey data on related perceptions. Taking issue with typological vein such analysis, this article questions both treatment perceptions indices and validity pertinence variables used to explain them. It is argued that are conflated practice, whilst explanatory appear ungrounded in empirical reality. These limitations serve reinforce expectations a menace be associated primarily societies global periphery. Drawing supposedly paradigmatic case Britain, suggests problem bias scholarship compounded three factors: failure domestic-focused literatures engage one another sufficient depth; relative lack qualitative research into within core Western states; neglect power study practices at levels analysis.