Corruption: Its Definitions and Typologies

Abstract

Corruption is one of the central issue facing developing state, be that dictatorship or democracies. Once seen as a problem largely confined to the low paid people, the explosion of scandals in well established politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen over the last two decades has demonstrated that no one is immune to the corrosive impact of corruption. This paper is an effort to bring together the developed and developing state, which approaches the issue of corruption from a variety of different analytical perspectives. Attention is devoted to such questions as how corruption is to defined, how it operates in practice, what its impact on the society.

Keywords: Corruption and its typologies, Social problems, Government and society, United States of America, Pakistan.