Concepts of Corruption and Their Perception in Developed Countries

Abstract

Corruption is a sociopolitical phenomenon, temporal and spatially dispersed, even if not uniformly. Because of this, it becomes an object of interest in the most diverse areas of human knowledge ‒ from Philosophy, through Political Science and Social Sciences, to Law ‒, because it is directly related to a series of social problems, which demand solutions each time more efficient to human groups directly affected by its effects. One of the notable similarities in the significance of corruption, wherever it is considered, it is the connotation of degradation, to a greater or lesser degree, of some moral parameter established ‒ especially if considered the public good, which perhaps is to induce the researcher to understand it as an evil thought to the collective. Thus, the study on fragility of human morality, even if panoramic, may have countries considered less corrupt, that present a developed economic framework, as a valid methodological starting point.