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Public Organiz Rev (2010) 10:153–171 DOI 10.1007/s11115-009-0102-y Combating Corruption and Managing Integrity in Malaysia:A Critical Overview of Recent Strategies and Initiatives Noore Alam Siddiquee Abstract The Government of Malaysia has made continuous efforts and put in place an elaborate set of strategies and institutions aimed at combating corruption and promoting integrity in the society.The nation’s anti-corruption drive has lately received a major boost.The Badawi government that came to power in 2003 following 22 years of the Mahathir era declared containing corruption as its main priority which was followed by a series of concrete measures.However,the governmental attempts and strategies in Malaysia appear to have met with little success,as evidenced by the current data that suggests entrenched corruption in the society.Evidence shows that despite governmental campaigns and initiatives, corruption has remained acute,widespread and,in fact,worsened in recent years.This paper presents a critical overview of the anti-corruption strategies being followed in Malaysia and explores the problems and limitations of the current approach to fighting corruption and managing integrity in the society. Keywords Corruption.Public integrity.Governance.Politicization.Patronage and Money politics Introduction Although corruption is not a new phenomenon,lately it has become a matter of growing concern all over the world.This is partly because of the changing economic and political environment around the globe and partly because of the growing consensus in both academic and policy circles of the negative impacts of corruption on socio-economic development.Now there is a far greater appreciation than in the past that corruption is not only morally wrong,it exacts a heavy toll on a nation’s prosperity.Corruption undermines good governance,distorts public policy,leads to misallocation of resources and hurts economic growth(Bardhan 1997;Rose-Ackerman 1999).Consequently governmen