Cultural Typology of Corruption Perceptions: Country Cases

Currently, the problem of corruption in one way or another affects all countries of the world. Despite the fact that the level of corruption varies from country to country, the global trend remains the need to develop and implement anti-corruption policies. Nevertheless, when similar measures of anti-corruption policy are applied in some countries, the level of corruption remains quite low, while in others, despite all measures, it remains at a very high level. All of the above indicates the need for differentiation of anti-corruption policies. The most obvious difference between countries is cultural diversity; accordingly, these cultural differences should also be taken into account for differentiating anti-corruption policies. Thus, cultural characteristics are determined by many scholars as one of the patterns of corrupt behavior (Treisman, 2000), (Bontis et al., 2009). Nowadays, the most widely used cultural indicators are Geert Hofstede's ones, and the Corruption Perception Index is the main measure of corruption. Thereby, this work will focus on finding the relationship between the values of the Corruption Perception Index and individual Hofstede's cultural indicators.