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Title: | Complexity thinking in the fight against corruption: some perspectives from South Africa |
Authors: | Habtemichael, Faniel Cloete, Fanie |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies (ISSN 0258-9346) |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 85-105 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subject: | corruption |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589346.2010.492151 |
Abstract: | Corruption and the efforts to curb it can be explained in terms of some elements of complexity thinking. The article analyses corruption and anticorruption efforts, the level of interconnectedness, organization, and coordination involved in fighting corruption in South Africa, and its implications as seen from perspectives of complexity thinking. The authors find that corruption is comparable to a social virus that continuously mutates and adapts to new environments to counter anticorruption strategies. On the basis of its omnipresence, myriad manifestations, causes and impacts, corruption is found to be a complex, dynamic and ever-changing social phenomenon. It is impossible to totally eradicate it, and one can only strive to consistently reduce its intensity and scope over time. A holistic anticorruption policy approach that continuously empowers all sectors of society (starting at the level of the family) and all levels of administration has to be encouraged. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |