Abstract
In this paper, citien’s reportage of corruption means a citien’s readiness to report a witnessed corruption incident to the anticorruption agencies. Citiens’ reportage of corruption is largely conditioned by a free will decision. In this study, the decision to report corruption or not, noted as a critical concern in anti-corruption efforts. The influence of the social-psychological factors, particularly a powerdistancing mind-set on a citizens intentional behaviour to report a corruption event, has been utilized as a method to establish factors that would affect citizens to report witnessed corruption incidents in Tanzania. A case study was used. This paper used qualitative data collected in Lindi Municipal Council and Mwanza City Council to show, how a power-distance mind-set hinders citiens’ readiness to report witnessed corruption incident in Tanzania. The study determined that, Ethnic traditional values of displaying the elderly as untouchable and uncriticised may influence a social practice of remaining silent on those seen with power. The implications of this mentality may extend to different levels in the public sectors domain. The study sees a need for mediating the conceptualization of a power-distancing mentality to citiens’ reportage of corruption as an imperative (an avoidable reality).
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Mgalula, Eric C. and Kweyamba, Audax B.
(2026)
"How Power Distancing Mentality Hinders a Citiens Readiness to Report a Witnessed Corruption Incident in Tanania.,"
Tanzania Journal of Sociology: Vol. 9:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
DOI: 10.56279/tajoso.v9i1.124
Available at:
https://commons.udsm.ac.tz/tjso/vol9/iss1/8