Abstract
Acknowledgements The Arab Transformations Project is coordinated by the University of Aberdeen (UK) and includes a further 11 partners: Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland; Analisis Sociologicos Economicos y Politicos (ASEP), Madrid, Spain; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy; Universitat Graz (UNI GRAZ), Graz, Austria; Societatea Pentru Methodologia Sondajelor ConcluziaPrim (Concluzia), Chisinau, Moldova; Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquee pour le Developpement (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria; Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (BASEERA); Cairo, Egypt; Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), Amman, Jordan; University of Jordan (JU), Amman, Jordan; MEDA Solutions (MEDAS), Casablanca, Morocco; Association Forum Des Sciences Sociales Appliquees (ASSF); Tunis, Tunisia. The author would also like to acknowledge the World Values Survey, Arab Barometer and Gallup Analytics on whose survey data they draw. We are also grateful to Viola Sanelli and Ilia Xypolia, at the University of Aberdeen, for material they supplied on the history and politics of the region. The project received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no #320214.
Highlights
More than a third of respondents think every level of government is corrupt, and where we have the detailed information we find that between 13 and 35 per cent think all or most of the politicians, the tax officials and even the judges are corrupt
One thing which has proved to be true across the whole of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is that people see their countries as thoroughly corrupt and they are angry about it
It is mentioned as a major reason for the protests of 2011, for example: the ArabTrans survey asked for the important reasons why people went on the streets, and while there are significant differences between countries, protesting against corruption is the most popular reason by far in four of the countries, and while it falls to second place in Egypt and Jordan, it is chosen by far more people than any of the remaining choices (Figure 1)
Summary
One thing which has proved to be true across the whole of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is that people see their countries as thoroughly corrupt and they are angry about it It is mentioned as a major reason for the protests of 2011, for example: the ArabTrans survey asked for the important reasons why people went on the streets (allowing them to name two items from the list), and while there are significant differences between countries, protesting against corruption is the most popular reason by far in four of the countries, and while it falls to second place in Egypt and Jordan, it is chosen by far more people than any of the remaining choices (Figure 1). This paper explores the nature of corruption, as it is understood and experienced in the MENA region, to see what that tells us about how societies function and what has been going on in the MENA region
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