ABSTRACT
The developmental and structural-functional schools in political science of the 1960s gave birth to the revisionist approach to political corruption. In the pre-state period in Israel, corruption originated as a necessity. But after independence, corruption manifested dysfunctional aspects. In terms of policy implication, the case of Israel has demonstrated that certain factors can inhibit corruption while political development is still enhanced, or can allow corruption to flourish while bureaucratic performance declines. When these factors are identified, it will be possible to begin to develop a multi-faceted effort to control corruption. Institutionalization of white bureaucratic corruption not only created an environment in which more serious types of corruption developed, but also blocked the process of bureaucratization. Also, political institutionalization was not necessarily affected by corruption, and corruption of the type of patron-client relations can thrive parallel or external to the level of political institutionalization.
