Bribery and Corruption in Telecommunications: Death, Defamation, and Dogma
17 Pages Posted: 9 Oct 2013
Date Written: October 7, 2013
Abstract
Despite strong traditions of research into corruption and into telecommunications policy and regulation, the two are almost never combined, an absence that remains unexplained. One possibility is that it is “dangerous” in terms of physical harm, financial harm from defamation law suits or loss of funding from commercial entities. However, the cause appears to be an underlying set of models that is overly and almost exclusively reliant on market forces. The policy framework of liberalisation, privatisation and regulation was constructed without any regard for the opportunities it created for corruption and most problems are seen in terms of markets and their regulation. Issues of bribery, nepotism, state and regulatory capture have been outside the scope of research.
Keywords: Telecommunications, Bribery, Nepotism, Corruption, Capture, Violence, Neoliberalism.
JEL Classification: D73, G38, K14, K23, K42, K43, L96
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