Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State /

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state of pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harm, Christian
Other Authors: Charap, Joshua
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/091
Online Access:Full text available on IMF