ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to provide intellectual awareness and to bring about an increase in scholarly activity. It argues that political corruption will gain a position which is more central and more conspicuous on the agenda of a number of disciplines than is at present the case, even if that place is an account of its declining significance. As political corruption is created in and by context it is appropriate once more to draw attention to those several contexts. What happens to corruption will be in a large part a reflexion of the quality of government: political corruption is enfeebled by good government and engendered by bad government. There are reasons for believing in the possibility of a real diminution in the incidence of political corruption. Since however the expansion of corruption is an insidious and invisible process reactive to changing conditions in both the real world and our evaluation of it, so its diminution calls for imaginative and proactive reactions.
