ABSTRACT
Societies that are open to the rest of the world import not just goods and capital, but also ideas, information, and norms. Such cross-national interactions alter those people who participate in them. Sometimes the changes are subtle, as in the way people dress or the music they listen to. But international transactions can also promote major policy shifts1 and reshape the domestic economies and politics of countries.2 In this article, we add to the lines of scholarship that trace the domestic consequences of international integration. We suggest that international interactions can affect norms and practices that would seem, at first glance, to be determined by local social and cultural factors. Levels of corruption, for instance, clearly have powerful domestic determinants. We argue that a country's corruption level is also significantly affected by international influences.
