PUBLICATIONS

May 3

The Role of Social Norms in Bureaucratic Corruption: A Research-to-Practice Report

Why have decades of efforts to address civil service corruption yielded little lasting change? This research-to-practice report seeks to...

Apr 16

Common Patterns: A Fast Forward Tool for Systemic Corruption Analysis

This Working Paper explores the potential for using generic systems maps that represent “common patterns” of corruption as a way to fast...

Mar 25

How Anti-Corruption Efforts Can Inadvertently Fuel Conflict

This Working Paper is part of the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy (CJL) Program’s learning initiative, “Conflict Sensitivity in...

Jan 15

Understanding Actors: Stakeholder Analysis for Fighting Corruption in Contexts of Endemic Corruption and Conflict

Stakeholder analysis helps a program team identify who has the power to champion or block changes in corrupt practices. It offers a...

Nov 27, 2023

8 Ways Anti-Corruption Programs Can Inadvertently Fuel Conflict

Abstract This Working Paper is part of the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy (CJL) Pro- gram’s learning initiative “Conflict Sensitivity...

Oct 14, 2023

Understanding Corruption and Social Norms: A Case Study in Natural Resource Management

Abstract Corruption undermines many outcomes across development sectors, yet little is known about how social norms drive corruption or...

Jul 4, 2023

Civil Servants, Social Norms, and Corruption: What do we know? What do we do?

This literature review explores what is known about social norms that drive corrupt practices among civil servants in endemically corrupt...

Feb 16, 2022

Social Norms in Practice

This short guide offers an example of a corrupt behavior driven by a social norm. It identifies the components of the norm and explains...

Dec 3, 2021

Adapting Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: A Literature Review

This paper identifies the prominent debates in the literature on how to adapt anti-corruption strategies for fragile and...

Oct 13, 2021

How are Social Norms Different: Not just an Academic Exercise

This short guide explains how social norms are different from attitudes, behaviors, morals, conventions and values and why that matters...

Oct 5, 2021

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed & Something Blue: A Review of Social Norms Change

This paper offers evaluators and in-house M&E specialists a review of existing social norms change assessment practices filtered through...

Jun 23, 2021

Why Social Norms Matter to Anti-Corruption

This short guide explains why integrating social norms into accountability, corruption or integrity related programming matters and...

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