Broadly speaking, corruption can be classified into five categories:
political corruption, administrative corruption, grand corruption,
petty corruption, and patronage/paternalism and being a “team
player.” In this chapter the term is defined to include pecuniary or
nonpecuniary considerations given to government officials for the
use of public office for private gains.1Activities that lead to personal
benefit that do not involve the government or a quid pro quo are
not examined here.