Norms, Gender and Corruption

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the complex relationship between gender equality, corruption and good governance. It clearly shows that the inclusion of women in positions of power is no quick fix to reduced levels of corruption. The chapters give new insights on how social and political norms specify the room open for women to maneuver in society. -- Lena Wngnerud, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'This excellent collection is a much-needed inquiry into still relatively unexplored debates around gender and corruption. Spanning many countries and different types of corruption, and furthering conceptual clarity as well as offering empirical case studies, the book is a must-read for anti-corruption scholars and practitioners.' -- Elizabeth David-Barrett, University of Sussex, UK

Edited by Ina Kubbe, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Ortrun Merkle, Post-Doctoral Researcher, United Nations University MERIT and Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Contents: Preface xvi 1 Introduction. Gender and corruption: the role of norms 1 Ina Kubbe and Ortrun Merkle 2 Type matters! Why we need to stop overgeneralizing results: a closer look at gender, norms, and corruption 25 M. Jamie-Lee Campbell 3 Gender norms and firms corruption: evidence from China 45 Chengyu Fu 4 Gender differences in the prioritization of corruption as the most important problem in the US, 19392015 60 T. Murat Yildirim 5 Unpacking the link between gender and injunctive norms on corruption using survey data: a multilevel analysis of 30 European countries 78 Giulia M. Dotti Sani and Simona Guglielmi 6 Gendering womens political representation and good governance in the EU? A feminist approach against informal norms of corruption 99 Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and F. Melis Cin 7 Women held back: the depressing effect of institutional and norms-based barriers on female representation in corrupt contexts 120 Gustavo Diaz and Kelly Senters Piazza 8 Gender stereotypes and corruption in devolved systems of government: evidence from local governments in Kenya 139 Justa Mwangi, Wilson Muna and Gitile Naituli 9 The impact of corruption on gender in Central and Eastern Europe: how corruption challenges womens life 159 Liljana Cvetanoska and Ina Kubbe 10 Gender perspective in justice systems: comparative analysis of the Brazilian, Spanish and German realities on corruption cases 183 Denise Neves Abade and Katharina Miller 11 Sustaining the patriarchal bargain in Morocco: the normalization of Moroccan gendered judicial corruption 213 Ginger R. Feather 12 Wasta and economic opportunities: the case of Palestinian men and women in the West Bank 239 Chloe Laurence Cohen 13 Sextortion: corruption shaped by gender norms 253 Elin Bjarnegrd, Dolores Calvo, sa Eldn, and Silje Lundgren 14 Moving forward: including norms in the research agenda on gender and corruption 269 Ortrun Merkle and Ina Kubbe Index