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“Contagiousness” of Corruption: Horizontal Outspread among Individuals


Valeriy Bortsev
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Bortsev Valeriy Viktorovich – Master of Economic Sci., Postgraduate Student of the Academic Department of Political Economy, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Published in:
Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship
– № 9 / May, 2013



Keywords: corruption, corruption growth, corruption in society, permanent corruption, social interaction


Citation:
Valeriy Bortsev (2013). “Contagiousness” of Corruption: Horizontal Outspread among Individuals. Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship, 14(9), 103-110. — url: http://bgscience.ru/com/lib/4178


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Abstract:

This article analyzes the phenomenon of horizontal spread of corruption in society. It reveals that the individual's knowledge and suspicions about corruption in his inner circle or society in whole that form the expectations of the corruption growth. The existence of such expectations is the basic element of corrupt behavior and it increases the corruption in whole.







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