The Incidence of Bribery in the Public Administration. Comparison between Spain and Ecuador

Abstract

At present, the issue of corruption is a matter of consideration throughout the world, without distinction of races or colors. In some legislations, bribery is considered a corruption type where the public official sells the public function, in a reciprocal way as who offers and who accepts. This research defines a set of characteristics applied to the legislation of Ecuador and Spain to identify weaknesses and strengths in the treatment of the bribery issue in these countries, including the incidence of cases in each of them. The above can be considered a basis used in the identification of some policies and mechanisms that allow bribery to be minimized and thus its impact on the different areas of civic life. In the elaboration of the research the Investigation-Action methodology, the documentary research and the feature analysis are used.