ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the differentiation of different types of corruption identified by Jain and have considered the role of the legislature in curbing corruption. It examines each of the legislative functions: legislation/policy making, representation, and oversight and focuses on how they can contribute to reduced corruption. The chapter also presents a brief insight on the various types of corruption: bureaucratic corruption, grand corruption, and legislative corruption. Legislatures usually address corruption while performing their oversight function which, along with the representative and the legislative, is one of the three fundamental functions performed by legislatures worldwide. The research has indicated that legislatures operating within parliamentary forms of government have greater oversight than those operating in semi-presidential and presidential systems. The correlation and gamma correlations sustain the claim that measurement of oversight capacity is imperfect and that simply counting the number of oversight tools is not the optimal way to do so.
