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Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman,Bonnie J. Palifka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107081208
This new edition of a 1999 classic shows how institutionalized corruption can be fought through sophisticated political-economic reform.
Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521659124
How high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government.
Author : Bo Rothstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226729572
The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it’s clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on the health and wealth of societies, the criteria for good governance remain far from clear. In this pathbreaking book, leading political scientist Bo Rothstein provides a theoretical foundation for empirical analysis on the connection between the quality of government and important economic, political, and social outcomes. Focusing on the effects of government policies, he argues that unpredictable actions constitute a severe impediment to economic growth and development—and that a basic characteristic of quality government is impartiality in the exercise of power. This is borne out by cross-sectional analyses, experimental studies, and in-depth historical investigations. Timely and topical, The Quality of Government tackles such issues as political legitimacy, social capital, and corruption.
Author : Helena Stensöta,Lena Wängnerud
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319709291
The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s. Debates have been heated and scholars accused of bringing forward stereotypical beliefs about women as the “fair” sex. Policy proposals for bringing more women to office have been criticized for promoting unrealistic quick-fix solutions to deeply rooted problems. This edited volume advances the knowledge surrounding the link between gender and corruption by including studies where the historical roots of corruption are linked to gender and by contextualizing the exploration of relationships, for example by distinguishing between democracies versus authoritarian states and between the electoral arena versus the administrative branch of government—the bureaucracy. Taken together, the chapters display nuances and fine-grained understandings. The book highlights that gender equality processes, rather than the exclusionary categories of “women” and “men”, should be at the forefront of analysis, and that developments strengthening the position of women vis-à-vis men affect the quality of government.
Author : Yahong Zhang,Cecilia Lavena
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498712026
As a political and social disease, public corruption costs governments and businesses around the world trillions of dollars every year.Government Anti-Corruption Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Perspective provides you with a better understanding of public corruption and governments anti-corruption practices. It outlines a general framework of anti-c
Author : Richard Rose,Caryn Peiffer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319928457
This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption. More than 1.8 billion people pay the price of bad government each year, by sending a bribe to a public official. In developing countries, corruption affects social services, such as health care and education, and law enforcement institutions, such as the police. When public officials do not act as bureaucrats delivering services by the book, people can try to get them by hook or by crook. The book’s analysis draws on unique evidence: a data base of sample surveys of 175,000 people in 125 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. The authors avoid one-size-fits-all proposals for reform and instead provide measures that can be applied to particular public services to reduce or eliminate opportunities for corruption.
Author : William E. Schluter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813586199
New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results. Such unethical behavior is known as “soft corruption,” and former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter has been fighting it for the past fifty years. In this searing personal narrative, the former state senator recounts his fight to expose and reform these acts of government misconduct. Not afraid to cite specific cases of soft corruption in New Jersey politics, he paints a vivid portrait of public servants who care more about political power and personal gain than the public good. By recounting events that he witnessed firsthand in the Garden State, he provides dramatic illustrations of ills that afflict American politics nationwide. As he identifies five main forms of soft corruption, Schluter diagnoses the state government’s ethical malaise, and offers concrete policy suggestions for how it might be cured. Not simply a dive through the muck of New Jersey politics, Soft Corruption is an important first step to reforming our nation’s political system, a book that will inspire readers to demand that our elected officials can and must do better. Visit: www.softcorruption.com (http://www.softcorruption.com)
Author : Kenneth Gibbons
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773582019
Canadians assume that their politicians and institutions are relatively free of the corruption they associate with other nations. The editors of this volume argue that this questionable supposition is based on scant evidence and very little serious analysis.
Author : Peter Larmour,Nick Wolanin
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144775
Corruption and Anti-Corruption deals with the international dimensions of corruption, including campaigns to recover the assets of former dictators, and the links between corruption, transnational and economic crime. It deals with corruption as an issue in political theory, and shows how it can be addressed in campaigns for human rights. It also presents case studies of reform efforts in Philippines, India and Thailand. The book explains the doctrines of a well-established domestic anticorruption agency. It is based on research to develop a curriculum for a unique international training course on ‘Corruption and Anti-Corruption’, designed and taught by academics at The Australian National University, the Australian Institute of Criminology and public servants in the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Author : William Lockley Miller,?se B. Gr?deland,Tatyana Y. Koshechkina
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 963911698X
Focusing on the gap between democratic ideals and performance, three European academics study the common experience and even more common perception of the corrupt behavior of bureaucrats in post-communist Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The authors conducted focus-group studies, one-on-one interviews, and large-scale surveys to reveal plentiful details about the ways ordinary citizens cope in their day-to-day dealings with low-level officials and state employees, whose decisions can have a critically important impact on people's lives. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Melanie Manion
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674040519
This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Melanie Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated. The book argues that where corruption is already commonplace, the context in which officials and ordinary citizens make choices to transact corruptly (or not) is crucially different from that in which corrupt practices are uncommon. A central feature of this difference is the role of beliefs about the prevalence of corruption and the reliability of government as an enforcer of rules ostensibly constraining official venality. Anticorruption reform in a setting of widespread corruption is a problem not only of reducing corrupt payoffs, but also of changing broadly shared expectations of venality. The book explores differences in institutional design choices about anticorruption agencies, appropriate incentive structures, and underlying constitutional designs that contribute to the disparate outcomes in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Author : Bo Rothstein,Aiysha Varraich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107163706
This book provides a systematic analysis of how the understanding of corruption has evolved and pinpoints what constitutes corruption.
Author : Frank Anechiarico,James B. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226020517
Using anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, Anechiarico and Jacobs demonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing absolute integrity. By proliferating dysfunctions, constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control - no less than corruption itself - has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.
Author : Kaushik Basu,Tito Cordella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319656847
This book considers how emerging economies around the world face the challenge of building good institutions and effective governance, since so much of economic development depends on having these in place. The promotion of shared prosperity and the battle against poverty require interventions to reach out to the poor and the disadvantaged. Yet time and again we have seen such effort foild or diminished by corruption and leakage. The creation of good governance and institutions and structures to combat corruption require determination and passion but also intricate design rooted in data, analysis, and research. In this book, leading researchers from around the world bring to the table some of the best available ideas to help create better governance structures, design laws for corruption control, and nurture good institutions.
Author : Luís de Sousa,Barry Hindess,Peter Larmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134035458
The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity. Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of country studies including Taiwan and South Korea, South East Europe, Fiji, Russia and the Baltic States. Some of the questions, used to examine the development of new anti-corruption actors, include: In what context were these born? How do they operate in pursuing their mission and mandate? How successful have they been in relation to expected results? To what extent are governmental and non governmental actors aware of each other and how far do they cooperate towards the common goal of fighting corruption? What explains the shift in emphasis after the end of the cold war, from national to international action? Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption will be of interest to students and scholars of corruption, public policy, political science, developmental studies and law. Luís de Sousa is an Associate Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Portugal and Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy. Barry Hindess is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Australia. Peter Larmour is a Reader in Public Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Australia.