Bribery and Corruption in Telecommunications: Death, Defamation, and Dogma

17 Pages Posted: 9 Oct 2013

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Ewan Sutherland

University of the Witwatersrand, LINK Centre

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

Suggested Citation

Sutherland, Ewan, Bribery and Corruption in Telecommunications: Death, Defamation, and Dogma (October 7, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2337257 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2337257

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