the balanced distribution of public offices as well as largely nondiscriminatory access to the Service Public. In the process, the comparatively high wages, diverse social benefits and good protection of employees in the public sector act as an incentive for employees not to risk their position by engaging in corrupt conduct.12 Employees in the public sector are also described as honest and loyal and are considered largely efficient. This integrity and efficiency are an important basis for the fact that petty corruption13 is not an established, common, everyday phenomenon in Switzerland