Abstract

Corruption enables private gains for public purposes, violates democracy, and incapacitates the majority of people. Though under-discussed, business or corporate corruption rather flourishes from governments’ various omissions and commissions. The field-responses in several parts of West Bengal, India reveal that people have sound understanding of both business and government corruption, but their individual efforts are too inadequate in countering corruption. Still, such awareness; and people’s continued interest in politics sets the context before collective capability: by non-violent means, people need to use the state’s space for asserting empowerment and agency; and revitalize the regulatory agencies, as countervailing forces for strengthening democracy’s space against corruption.

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