A merry chase around the gift/bribe boundary

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dc.contributor.authorThompson, Douglas Wilton
dc.contributor.supervisorFerguson, Gerry
dc.contributor.supervisorWoodcock, Scott
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-22T22:54:20Z
dc.date.available2008-09-22T22:54:20Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-09-22T22:54:20Z
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Law
dc.degree.levelMaster of Laws LL.Men_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis questions whether it is possible to locate a boundary between gift and bribe that can survive comparison across cultures and history. This question is addressed in a multidisciplinary way, engaging the literature on the current use and the history of the language of bribery, studies of gifting and reciprocity, and the anthropological and philosophical literature on relativism. The approach is non-linear—like a hound on a chase, stopping in medieval England, ancient Athens and various societies in the modern world. It is concluded that if there is a universal gift/bribe boundary, it is likely based on a norm of reciprocity rather than on a foundation of assumptions that incorporate modern capitalism and Weberian bureaucracy. This implies that global anti-bribery initiatives, as presently conceived, are ill founded. An alternative account, founded on reciprocity and conventionalism, is postulated as a more secure foundation for locating a gift/bribe boundary.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1212
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectgiften_US
dc.subjectbribeen_US
dc.subjectcorruptionen_US
dc.subjectreciprocityen_US
dc.subjectrelativismen_US
dc.subjectconventionalismen_US
dc.subjectpluralismen_US
dc.subjectxeniaen_US
dc.subjectpardonersen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences::Lawen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Church historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Language::Language and languagesen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::Literature, Medievalen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Middle Ages--Historyen_US
dc.titleA merry chase around the gift/bribe boundaryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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