Income 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-eight countries were included in the study. ?n some cases, income level was a significant demographic variable, while in other cases it was not. There was no clear pattern concerning the correlation of income level to attitude toward taking a bribe.