Peter Graeff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 183331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Graeff |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Graeff |
| ASSINATURA | GRAEFF P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1110-0384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Unveiling corruption
This study examines four potential drivers of corruption using a large administrative data set. These potential drivers have been previously tested and confirmed in experimental game studies or studies that used aggregated macro data. In contrast to these previous studies, the dataset used in this study comprises real individual data that classifies whether a public servant was dismissed due to corruption or not. The data were compiled from vario…
Morris, Stephen D
Corona und Korruption
Ethical Decisions between the Conflicting Priorities of Legality and Group Loyalty
In this study, we examine volunteer firefighters' inclination toward a "code of silence". The likelihood of not reporting fellow group members' deviant behavior is increased by group standards such as loyalty, but this comes at the cost of violating the law. A factorial survey was conducted with volunteer firefighters in Germany to test the influence of several factors in determining whether whistleblowing or conforming to a "code of silence" was…
Corruption
In a broad sense, corruption can be understood as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. As a general term, corruption subsumes various deviant practices such as bribery, nepotism, clientelism, embezzlement, fraud, and graft. Early theorists consider corruption as a breach of public interest, in other words, a deviation from the formal duties of a public role. In political science, corruption has been advanced as a breach of the norm of i…
Religion, Crime, and Social Trust in Historic Germany
Are Catholics more inclined to violate social norms than Protestants? A tentative answer is yes due to this confession's attitude towards absolution of sins. Opportunities existed for Christians around Reformation times, for example as sales of indulgences. Catholics and Protestants arguably differed historically in their understanding of whether penitence is feasible or not, resulting in different conditions under which Catholics and Protestants…
Was ist Korruption?
In our society, corruption occurs in various forms and in different areas. When addressing the question of what corruption is, one will find many answers in scientific research. This book provides an overview of the most important answers in a comprehensible fashion and is ordered according to the disciplines which deal with this topic: economics, business studies/management science, criminal law, civil law, historical science, administrative sci…
Korruptionsbekämpfung vermitteln
Korruptionsbekämpfung Vermitteln
Soziologie des Ehrenamtes
Social Mechanisms of Corruption
By applying a bribery model, this paper will deal with those constellations of conditions and activities by actors that are capable of explaining corrupt behavior in economic and sociological theory. Some of these explanations reveal the properties of ‘social mechanisms’ in the sense of analytical sociology (AS). Both disciplines suggest and test the mechanisms of corruption. By taking into consideration the link between monitoring and the freque…
Quantitative Approaches to Comparative Analyses
While there is an abundant use of macro data in the social sciences, little attention is given to the sources or the construction of these data. Owing to the restricted amount of indices or items, researchers most often apply the ‘available data at hand’. Since the opportunities to analyse data are constantly increasing and the availability of macro indicators is improving as well, one may be enticed to incorporate even qualitatively inferior ind…
Incentives and Inhibitors of Abusing Academic Positions
In a web-based survey, we presented university students (n = 2,287) with vignettes in which they had to decide whether to abuse the position of student assistant for personal gain. Referring to the existing literature, we tested whether the emergence of corruption increases when benefits from corruption and the probability of the occurrence of those benefits rise and whether corruption decreases when costs and the probability of their occurrence …
Method Bias in Comparative Research
This study investigates indices of ethnic diversity for method effects due to differences in operationalization. It adapts the methodology of multitrait–multimethod analysis to the field of socioeconomic macro research. While approaches for checking construct validity or method bias are common in psychology and educational research, they are rarely applied in other social science disciplines such as economics and political science. We find that m…
Explaining the Decision to Plagiarize
Plagiarism is a fraudulent behavior that infringes on the rules of universities and intellectual property rights. Rational choice theory provides a theoretical framework for explaining this deviant behavior. Our study increases knowledge of the little analyzed interrelation among the individual determinants of deviant behavior. We use panel data from a large-scale random sample of university students (N = 2,806). The expected utility of plagiaris…
Modelling a rational choice theory of criminal action
Referring to classic rational choice models of criminal behaviour (Becker 1968), this paper presents an extended Subjective Expected Utility model that is more in line with the requirements of theorizing and empirical testing than former models. In our model, the decision of an actor is influenced by the expected utility of the crime and the norms that prohibit the delinquent action. It is suggested that there is an interaction between utility an…
Der Korruptionsfall Siemens
Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty
1. Introduction 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace 3. What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? 4. Production, Prosperity, Preferences and Peace 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A Theoretical Framework 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, 1984- 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic growth? 8. Eco…
When Anomie Becomes a Reason for Suicide
Durkheim's theory of suicide was among the first attempts within sociology to combine theoretical and empirical approaches. Empirical evidence has not yet produced cohesive results. In our opinion, this is due to inappropriate operationalization in previous studies. According to Durkheim's theory, ‘normal’ country-specific suicide levels and pathological suicide rates are different, and only the latter is really of sociological interest, as they …
Volunteer Management in German National Parks-from Random Action Toward a Volunteer Program
Why Nations Arm in the Age of Globalization
What accounts for different levels of military forces between countries and over time? Payne (1989) found in cross country regressions cultural influences to be the most important determinant. In contrast to Payne, we will show that the mechanisms of why nations arm can only be fully discovered by time series analysis and – going beyond Payne's model – we will test the impact of the end of the Cold War and show that the process of globalization h…
Ökonomische und nicht-ökonomische Gefahren für Demokratien
Incentives and Inhibitors of Abusing Academic Positions
In a web-based survey, we presented university students (n = 2,287) with vignettes in which they had to decide whether to abuse the position of student assistant for personal gain. Referring to the existing literature, we tested whether the emergence of corruption increases when benefits from corruption and the probability of the occurrence of those benefits rise and whether corruption decreases when costs and the probability of their occurrence …
Explaining the Decision to Plagiarize
Plagiarism is a fraudulent behavior that infringes on the rules of universities and intellectual property rights. Rational choice theory provides a theoretical framework for explaining this deviant behavior. Our study increases knowledge of the little analyzed interrelation among the individual determinants of deviant behavior. We use panel data from a large-scale random sample of university students (N = 2,806). The expected utility of plagiaris…
Modelling a rational choice theory of criminal action
Referring to classic rational choice models of criminal behaviour (Becker 1968), this paper presents an extended Subjective Expected Utility model that is more in line with the requirements of theorizing and empirical testing than former models. In our model, the decision of an actor is influenced by the expected utility of the crime and the norms that prohibit the delinquent action. It is suggested that there is an interaction between utility an…
When Anomie Becomes a Reason for Suicide
Durkheim's theory of suicide was among the first attempts within sociology to combine theoretical and empirical approaches. Empirical evidence has not yet produced cohesive results. In our opinion, this is due to inappropriate operationalization in previous studies. According to Durkheim's theory, ‘normal’ country-specific suicide levels and pathological suicide rates are different, and only the latter is really of sociological interest, as they …
Method Bias in Comparative Research
This study investigates indices of ethnic diversity for method effects due to differences in operationalization. It adapts the methodology of multitrait–multimethod analysis to the field of socioeconomic macro research. While approaches for checking construct validity or method bias are common in psychology and educational research, they are rarely applied in other social science disciplines such as economics and political science. We find that m…
Ethical Decisions between the Conflicting Priorities of Legality and Group Loyalty
In this study, we examine volunteer firefighters' inclination toward a "code of silence". The likelihood of not reporting fellow group members' deviant behavior is increased by group standards such as loyalty, but this comes at the cost of violating the law. A factorial survey was conducted with volunteer firefighters in Germany to test the influence of several factors in determining whether whistleblowing or conforming to a "code of silence" was…
Social Mechanisms of Corruption
By applying a bribery model, this paper will deal with those constellations of conditions and activities by actors that are capable of explaining corrupt behavior in economic and sociological theory. Some of these explanations reveal the properties of ‘social mechanisms’ in the sense of analytical sociology (AS). Both disciplines suggest and test the mechanisms of corruption. By taking into consideration the link between monitoring and the freque…
Ökonomische und nicht-ökonomische Gefahren für Demokratien
Why Nations Arm in the Age of Globalization
What accounts for different levels of military forces between countries and over time? Payne (1989) found in cross country regressions cultural influences to be the most important determinant. In contrast to Payne, we will show that the mechanisms of why nations arm can only be fully discovered by time series analysis and – going beyond Payne's model – we will test the impact of the end of the Cold War and show that the process of globalization h…
When Anomie Becomes a Reason for Suicide
Durkheim's theory of suicide was among the first attempts within sociology to combine theoretical and empirical approaches. Empirical evidence has not yet produced cohesive results. In our opinion, this is due to inappropriate operationalization in previous studies. According to Durkheim's theory, ‘normal’ country-specific suicide levels and pathological suicide rates are different, and only the latter is really of sociological interest, as they …
Volunteer Management in German National Parks-from Random Action Toward a Volunteer Program
Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty
1. Introduction 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace 3. What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? 4. Production, Prosperity, Preferences and Peace 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A Theoretical Framework 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, 1984- 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic growth? 8. Eco…
Der Korruptionsfall Siemens
Modelling a rational choice theory of criminal action
Referring to classic rational choice models of criminal behaviour (Becker 1968), this paper presents an extended Subjective Expected Utility model that is more in line with the requirements of theorizing and empirical testing than former models. In our model, the decision of an actor is influenced by the expected utility of the crime and the norms that prohibit the delinquent action. It is suggested that there is an interaction between utility an…
Method Bias in Comparative Research
This study investigates indices of ethnic diversity for method effects due to differences in operationalization. It adapts the methodology of multitrait–multimethod analysis to the field of socioeconomic macro research. While approaches for checking construct validity or method bias are common in psychology and educational research, they are rarely applied in other social science disciplines such as economics and political science. We find that m…
Explaining the Decision to Plagiarize
Plagiarism is a fraudulent behavior that infringes on the rules of universities and intellectual property rights. Rational choice theory provides a theoretical framework for explaining this deviant behavior. Our study increases knowledge of the little analyzed interrelation among the individual determinants of deviant behavior. We use panel data from a large-scale random sample of university students (N = 2,806). The expected utility of plagiaris…
Incentives and Inhibitors of Abusing Academic Positions
In a web-based survey, we presented university students (n = 2,287) with vignettes in which they had to decide whether to abuse the position of student assistant for personal gain. Referring to the existing literature, we tested whether the emergence of corruption increases when benefits from corruption and the probability of the occurrence of those benefits rise and whether corruption decreases when costs and the probability of their occurrence …
Quantitative Approaches to Comparative Analyses
While there is an abundant use of macro data in the social sciences, little attention is given to the sources or the construction of these data. Owing to the restricted amount of indices or items, researchers most often apply the ‘available data at hand’. Since the opportunities to analyse data are constantly increasing and the availability of macro indicators is improving as well, one may be enticed to incorporate even qualitatively inferior ind…
Social Mechanisms of Corruption
By applying a bribery model, this paper will deal with those constellations of conditions and activities by actors that are capable of explaining corrupt behavior in economic and sociological theory. Some of these explanations reveal the properties of ‘social mechanisms’ in the sense of analytical sociology (AS). Both disciplines suggest and test the mechanisms of corruption. By taking into consideration the link between monitoring and the freque…
Korruptionsbekämpfung Vermitteln
Soziologie des Ehrenamtes
Korruptionsbekämpfung vermitteln
Was ist Korruption?
In our society, corruption occurs in various forms and in different areas. When addressing the question of what corruption is, one will find many answers in scientific research. This book provides an overview of the most important answers in a comprehensible fashion and is ordered according to the disciplines which deal with this topic: economics, business studies/management science, criminal law, civil law, historical science, administrative sci…
Corruption
In a broad sense, corruption can be understood as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. As a general term, corruption subsumes various deviant practices such as bribery, nepotism, clientelism, embezzlement, fraud, and graft. Early theorists consider corruption as a breach of public interest, in other words, a deviation from the formal duties of a public role. In political science, corruption has been advanced as a breach of the norm of i…
Religion, Crime, and Social Trust in Historic Germany
Are Catholics more inclined to violate social norms than Protestants? A tentative answer is yes due to this confession's attitude towards absolution of sins. Opportunities existed for Christians around Reformation times, for example as sales of indulgences. Catholics and Protestants arguably differed historically in their understanding of whether penitence is feasible or not, resulting in different conditions under which Catholics and Protestants…
Ethical Decisions between the Conflicting Priorities of Legality and Group Loyalty
In this study, we examine volunteer firefighters' inclination toward a "code of silence". The likelihood of not reporting fellow group members' deviant behavior is increased by group standards such as loyalty, but this comes at the cost of violating the law. A factorial survey was conducted with volunteer firefighters in Germany to test the influence of several factors in determining whether whistleblowing or conforming to a "code of silence" was…
Corona und Korruption
Unveiling corruption
This study examines four potential drivers of corruption using a large administrative data set. These potential drivers have been previously tested and confirmed in experimental game studies or studies that used aggregated macro data. In contrast to these previous studies, the dataset used in this study comprises real individual data that classifies whether a public servant was dismissed due to corruption or not. The data were compiled from vario…
Morris, Stephen D
Political science (16 obras) · Corruption and Economic Development (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Language change (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Criminology (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)