In this article, we will describe a method – a so-called scenario-based questionnaire
– to assess to what extent the aforementioned two groups of characteristics, either themselves or in combination, influence the judgement of a situation as corrupt or not. The elaboration of our scenario-based questionnaire, which is the core subject of this article, will be discussed in more detail in section three. In the past, a handful of scholars conducted studies developing a methodology to study the influence of characteristics on the judgement process of a situation as corrupt or not. These methods – assumptions, procedures, results and understandings – form the basis of my methodology. These studies will be presented together with their methodologies in the first introductory section of this article. Subsequent sections will address the elaborations of our scenario-based questionnaire.