Social Class 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. Social class was often a significant demographic variable. However, no clear pattern emerged regarding which social class was most or least opposed to bribe taking.