Cancer of corruption or the culture of corruption? How can we define, discuss and analyze this social phenomena?  I will agree completely with the many who will point out that corruption is impossible to definitively operationalize and that cultural context, history, point of perspective, motivation, etc. are all factors.  In fact I’ll argue that the term itself is a semantic land mine charged with power/Western-centric thinking. So, what has appeared on the survey so far related to corruption? There are three questions related to corruption on the survey, one about corruption in the organization of the respondent, one about corruption in the region where the respondent functions and then an open ended question encouraging elaboration on the closed ended question, namely what are your thoughts on corruption in general.  I have tweeted a couple of the more pithy responses, but here are a few more to get our conversational juices … Continue reading Some preliminary results related to the corruption questions