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recommendations vary little from one society to another. How rapidly
changing societies get to a better place is reduced to recommendations for
technical changes in ‘‘governance’’ and calls for ‘‘political will,’’ while the
very different places from which they embark on that journey seem to
matter little.
How did we arrive at that view of corruption and reform? Whose
interests and worldviews does it reflect, and what is missing from it?
What are its implications? And how well does it actually account for the
patterns of corruption and development we see in real societies? Those
questions are the focus of chapter 2.