Abstract
At the symbolic level, few citizens would say that they are against good governance and fewer still would endorse bad governance or corruption. However, because of their symbolic power, the terms governance and corruption are applied indiscriminately to describe what people like or dislike. Without standards for defining these terms, the result is confusion.
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For a detailed guide to questions that should be asked in order to understand under what circumstances bribery occurs, see Rose and Peiffer (2015).
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Rose, R., Peiffer, C. (2019). Setting Standards for Good and Bad Governance. In: Bad Governance and Corruption. Political Corruption and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92846-3_1
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