A recent definition of state building, which is a similar concept, is the political and institutional structures that negotiate the mutual demands between state and citizen. Let us start with looking at where we are trying to get. The purpose of Anti Corruption is part of a package of interventions aimed at improving the well being of its citizens in the long term. Some consensus on what sort of picture this presents has been arrived at in western countries. The picture is commonly displayed as

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... a temple. Others have used the metaphor of the Birds Nest. We come back about the implications of these metaphors later; however, they are an attempt to characterise a core or less complex set of structures that sustain this relationship between citizens and the state.