Information technology in the war against international bribery and corruption: The next frontier of institutional reform?

Bribery of public officials has become a worldwide epidemic, prompting an i nternational debate on how to best combat corruption. In this Article, Prof essor Salbu surveys recent reform efforts aimed at curbing corruption. In p articular he discusses two broad categories of reform: legislative and inst itutional. Both domestic and extraterritorial legislation, he argues, have proven to be ineffective and inefficient. Instead of further legislative re form, efforts should be shifted to altering underlying institutions in orde r to remove incentives for corruption. Through the diffusion of information technology, the world can better monitor bribery, and a level of value con vergence will be reached in which corruption is more universally disfavored .