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Abstract: The Corruption Scandal of the European Commission and its possible effects on the institutional balance and the question of legitimacy The first chapter is an attempt to define corruption. It is important to divide overlapping and complicated terms such ....

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.... behaviour both by the public and by experts. It is a well defined area of the untolerated behaviour. White corruption on the other hand is the behaviour that is tolerated by the public in a given society and not looked upon as misbehaviour. Grey corruption is the area in between, which is tolerated by a part of the society, while seen as corruption by the other part. It is also important to realize the dynamics of the definition of corruption, as it changes with geography or time from black to grey to white corruption (or vica versa). Corruption scandals are often only a sign of this change in the public perception of corruption. These cultural d ....