This paper provides an overview of the status, sources, and forms of corruption in Brazil. While the country … outperforms many of its regional and developmental peers on various corruption-related indicators, corruption continues to plague … procurement at all levels of government. After analysing what various metrics reveal about the character and level of corruption …

Dennis F. Thompson developed a theory of “institutional corruption” in order to explain a phenomenon that he believed … corruption broadly in analyses of various other public and private institutions, such as regulatory agencies, banks …, pharmaceutical companies, and think tanks. The states of affairs that researchers have identified as “institutional corruption” fall …