State capacity; drivers of corruption and anti-corruption interventions: conceptualising corruption in Indian context- a rational choice approach
International Journal of Development Research
State capacity; drivers of corruption and anti-corruption interventions: conceptualising corruption in Indian context- a rational choice approach
Received 03rd August, 2019; Received in revised form 26th September, 2019; Accepted 09th October, 2019; Published online 20th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Kannan Perumal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This context based study argues that unfair distribution of power; weak anti-corruption enforcement and illegal rent seeking act as drivers that sustain corruption in India. This study shows that the drivers identified in this study can help to conceptualise corruption in Indian context. This study demonstrates that India needs to make sincere efforts to address the drivers that promote and sustain corruption in order to achieve its developmental objectives. Another significant aspect of is study is that it has deciphered the relationship between existing anti-corruption framework; scope for illegal rent seeking and rent allocations and distribution of power with incidence of corruption in India.
