Comments on: Essay of the Day: The Collaborative Roots of Corruption https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-day-collaborative-roots-corruption/2016/07/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: David Ronfeldt https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-day-collaborative-roots-corruption/2016/07/12/comment-page-1#comment-1577796 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:16:19 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=57650#comment-1577796 Interesting study. While some corruption is individual, much (most?) is collective and collaborative. I would add that TIMN theory (not to mention your framework, Michel, as well as Karattani’s) offers a way to analyze corruption that I’ve not seen before: Basically, corruption arises because of the strength and persistence of the T/tribal form (e.g., by means of clans, partisans, factions, sects, gangs, etc.) in societies where the TIMN forms are not properly separated and shielded from each other — notably where dark-sided T forces penetrate the +I/institutional and +M/market sectors (e.g., Mexico, Russia). The U.S. government is not immune. Madisonian checks and balances, along with the limitations on tribal clannishness, help explain the lower degrees of corruption in our system. But the ways our society has been / is being tribalized now may explain the increasing corruption we’re now seeing.

I’m sorry to be so late with this comment, but I’m still this far behind in catching up on blog feed readings. Onward anyway.

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