02120pab a2200205 454500008004000000100002300040245012800063260000900191300001300200362000800213520145100221650002501672650002301697650001501720773004201735908000601777909001001783999001701793952010401810180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMarquette, Heather  aFinding god or moral disengagement in the fight against corruption in developing countries? Evidence from India and Nigeria  c2012  ap.11-26.  aFeb  aThere are growing calls for religion to be used in the fight against corruption on the basis of the assumption that religious people are more concerned with ethics than with the non-religious, despite the fact that many of the most corrupt countries in the world also rank highly in terms of religiosity. This article looks at the evidence in the current literature for a causal relationship between religion and corruption and questions the relevance of the methodologies being used to build up this evidence base. This article shows that the new ﾑmythﾒ about the relationship between religion and corruption is based on assumptions not borne out of the evidence. The article presents findings from field research in India and Nigeria that explores how individual attitudes towards corruption may (or may not) be shaped by religion. The research shows that religion may have some impact on attitudes towards corruption, but it has very little likely impact on actual corrupt behaviour. This is becauseﾗdespite universal condemnation of corruptionﾗit is seen by respondents as being so systemic that being uncorrupt often makes little sense. Respondents, by using a process that Bandura (2002) calls ﾑselective moral disengagementﾒ, were able to justify their own attitudes and behaviour vis-a-vis corruption, pointing towards corruption being a classic collective action problem, rather than a problem of personal values or ethics. -  aCorruption - Nigeria  aCorruption - India  aCorruption  aPublic Administration and Development  aN  a97686  c97685d97685  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 32, Issue no: 1pAR98146r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR