Living with Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Identity and the Role of Moral Disengagement.

ABSTRACT: We examine corruption across three Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries (Hungary, North Macedonia and Slovenia) through a social psychology framework which integrates social identity theory, social cognitive theory and moral disengagement mechanisms. We illustrate how various social identities influence individual and collective action in terms of ethical behavior and corruption, thereby creating, maintaining and perpetuating petty, grand and systemic public/private corruption through triadic co-determination via cognition, behavior and the environment. Despite growing research on corruption normalization, less is known about the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms in ethical decision making, the cognitive workings of how individuals reconcile unethical behavior and the social psycho

SUBMITTER: Takacs Haynes K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8418456 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature