Resumo

ZALPA, Genaro; TAPIA TOVAR, Evangelina  e  REYES MARTINEZ, Jorge. El que a buen árbol se arrima... exchange of favors and corruption. Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.17, pp.149-176. ISSN 2007-8110.

According to International Transparency, two of the forms that corruption adopts are favoritism and nepotism, which are defined as the abuse of power in order to favor friends, supporters and relatives. This form of corruption, related to the exchange of favors, is a habit established in some societies, including ours, since it includes practices that the population, or part of it, does not consider as corruption. This text, which is based on an empirical research carried out in Aguascalientes, analyses, by comparing its finding with the ones that other researchers have achieved in other societies, the thin line that separates corruption from reciprocity and the exchange of favors.

Palavras-chave : corruption; gray corruption; culture; favoritism; exchange of favors.