Education Level and Attitudes Toward Bribery

Robert W. McGee, Fayetteville State University
Serkan Benk, Inönü Üniversitesi

Abstract

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. Forty-seven countries were included in the study. In some cases, education was a significant demographic variable, while in other cases it was not. The correlation between education level and attitude toward receiving a bribe was not clear. Several different patterns were found. The findings in the present study confirm the findings in several other studies.