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Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem

Anna Persson; Bo Rothstein; Jan Teorell · Governance 26(3), 449–471 · 2013

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Type: Article
Author: Anna Persson; Bo Rothstein; Jan Teorell
Identifier: DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2012.01604.x
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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DisputedPersson, Rothstein and Teorell argued, from interviews in Kenya and Uganda, that anti-corruption reforms based on principal–agent assumptions fail in systemically corrupt settings because corruption there resembles a collective action problem without non-corruptible principals.