Angling for Sharks, Not Pilot Fish: Deep Corruption, Venal Corruption, and Public Values Failure

The existing literature in public administration and related disciplines tends to view government corruption in terms of legal transgression, specific acts by public officials in violation of public law. The present authors contend that a particularly worrisome form of corruption, one generally overlooked in the literature, is deep corruption, acts by public officials thwarting public values but acts not necessarily countermanded by public laws....