Public Anti-Corruption Strategies and Policies in Post-2003 Iraq

Corruption is one of the societal phenomena that can be monitored in all societies, regardless of their geographical location or the historical age in which they live and whatever degree of their social, economic or cultural growth, and corruption, regardless of the degree of its spread, is rejected, because it represents in reality a flagrant violation of the moral and social values of the individual and society. When corruption becomes common in the body of a country to reach its public and private institutions, as well as its judicial, educational and economic sectors ... etc, due to the lack of deterrent laws and legislations and their fragility, it weakens the country’s stability, deepens the class differentiation between groups of society and its segments, fuels the conflict and dismantles the social fabric.The study of the topic of public policies and corruption should be directed mainly to the summit of power for reform to begin from there and then to be reflected strictly downwards according to objective criteria that apply to everyone without exception. Also, a note should be done to the patterns of other political structures prevailing in political practice in Iraq such as (sectarian, doctrinal, tribal, and racial intolerance), which must be addressed through political reform, as they are in general the most important incubators of corruption in Iraq that were produced during the practice of political action by The ruling political elite.