Social Corruption and Corruption Inhibitors as a Complex Adaptive System

Abstract

This research began in July 1975 and ended in February 2013. It included the study of the social behavior in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Japan, UK and USA. After the conclusion of the research specific aspects of Australia, France, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine were included until the end of October 2017. The conclusion of the research was triggered by the anti-corruption campaigns the European Union is organizing. It was proven that the avoidance of corruption depends on individual behavior and not on the conditions of the environment. Corruption allows individuals to profit from the environment through illegitimate actions while they disintegrate the system they are part of. It is based on a “parasitarian” complementation that uses value judgments to justify the degradation of the environment they do in order to profit from it. Corrupt environments need that their dominant ethics is intentions driven, their justice does not cover the needs of equal opportunities and that the private and public actions of individuals are not transparent. Corruption may occur in any human action field. It can be included in the emotional, economic, social and political aspects of human behavior. The most known aspects deal with economic and power corruption. Corruption is inhibited when there is a functional ethics, which implies that functionality prevails over intentions, the justice is focused on ensuring equal opportunities for all and the society is transparent. Expansive justice implies that individual action is protected by social repair and not only individual repair and there is a social sanction of all actions that are not within the rules (system) of a society. This is only possible if there is a social transparency of the actions and individuals are identified based on their actions and added value in the society.