This chapter summarizes the results of 20 studies that were conducted on the relationship between social class and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter summarizes the results of 23 studies that were conducted on the relationship between education level and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter summarizes the results of 26 studies that were conducted on the relationship between age and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter summarizes the results of 31 studies that were conducted on the relationship between gender and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

This chapter provides summaries for each of the 24 substantive chapters of Robert W. McGee and Serkan Benk (Eds.). (2022). The Ethics of Bribery: Theoretical and Empirical Studies. Switzerland: Springer, and provides citations to additional summaries of more studies on the ethics of bribery

At the outset, and for virtually all people, bribery appears to be a crime, per se. That is, there are no exceptions. You bribe someone, or accept a bribe from another person, you are a criminal. Our claim, in sharp contrast, is that matters are quite a bit more complicated than that. Let us...

This chapter discusses and summarizes the Rothbard-Block Theory of Bribery. Basically, their theory takes the position that bribery is ethical if no one’s rights are violated. Rothbard and Block distinguish between commercial bribery and the bribing of government officials. In the case of a...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 56 countries. Participants were asked how risky is it to...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. The survey asked individuals in 52 countries how frequently ordinary people pay...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. Forty-eight countries were included in the study. Age was found to be a...