Corruption And Reform

Author : Edward L. Glaeser,Claudia Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226299594

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Corruption and Reform by Edward L. Glaeser,Claudia Goldin Pdf

Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today. Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States. They show that various approaches to reducing corruption have met with success, such as deregulation, particularly “free banking,” in the 1830s. In the 1930s, corruption was kept in check when new federal bureaucracies replaced local administrations in doling out relief. Another deterrent to corruption was the independent press, which kept a watchful eye over government and business. These and other facets of American history analyzed in this volume make it indispensable as background for anyone interested in corruption today.

Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521659124

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Corruption and Government by Susan Rose-Ackerman Pdf

How high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government.

Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman,Bonnie J. Palifka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107081208

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Corruption and Government by Susan Rose-Ackerman,Bonnie J. Palifka Pdf

This new edition of a 1999 classic shows how institutionalized corruption can be fought through sophisticated political-economic reform.

Author : Michael Johnston,Scott A. Fritzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000317572

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The Conundrum of Corruption by Michael Johnston,Scott A. Fritzen Pdf

This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best. Drawing on many years of experience and research, the authors critique many of the major strategies and tactics employed by anti-corruption actors, arguing that they have made the mistake of holding on to problematical assumptions, ideas, and strategies, rather than addressing the power imbalances that enable and sustain corruption. The book argues that progress against corruption is still possible but requires a focus on justice and fairness, considerable tolerance for political contention, and a willingness to stick with the reform cause over a very long process of thoroughgoing, sometimes discontinuous political change. Ultimately, the purpose of the book is not to tell people that they are doing things all wrong. Instead, the authors present new ways of thinking about familiar dilemmas of corruption, politics, contention, and reform. These valuable insights from two of the top thinkers in the field will be useful for policymakers, reform groups, grant-awarding bodies, academic researchers, NGO officers, and students.

Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107034747

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Corruption, Contention and Reform by Michael Johnston Pdf

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

Author : Johann Graf Lambsdorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139464765

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The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform by Johann Graf Lambsdorff Pdf

Corruption has been a feature of public institutions for centuries yet only relatively recently has it been made the subject of sustained scientific analysis. Lambsdorff shows how insights from institutional economics can be used to develop a better understanding of why corruption occurs and the best policies to combat it. He argues that rather than being deterred by penalties, corrupt actors are more influenced by other factors such as the opportunism of their criminal counterparts and the danger of acquiring an unreliable reputation. This suggests a novel strategy for fighting corruption similar to the invisible hand that governs competitive markets. This strategy - the 'invisible foot' - shows that the unreliability of corrupt counterparts induces honesty and good governance even in the absence of good intentions. Combining theoretical research with state-of-the-art empirical investigations, this book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy-makers concerned with anti-corruption reform.

Author : James L. Merriner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0809328747

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Grafters and Goo Goos by James L. Merriner Pdf

Chicago’s reputation for corruption is the basis of local and national folklore and humor. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833–2003 unfolds the city’s notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots. Former Chicago journalist James L. Merriner reveals the battles between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers to be expressions of conflicting class, ethnic, and religious values. From Chicago’s earliest years in the 1830s, the city welcomed dollar-chasing businessmen and politicians, swiftly followed by reformers who strived to clean up the attendant corruption. Reformers in Chicago were called “goo goos,” a derisive epithet short for “good-government types.” Grafters and Goo Goos contends a certain synergy defined the relationship between corruption and reform. Politicians and reformers often behaved similarly, their separate ambitions merging into a conjoined politics of interdependency wherein the line between heroes and villains grew increasingly faint. The real story, asserts Merriner, has less to do with right against wrong than it does with the ways the cultural backgrounds of politicians and reformers steered their own agendas, animating and defining each other by their opposition. Drawing on original and archival research, Merriner identifies constants in the struggle between corruption and reform amid a welter of changing social circumstances and customs—decades of alternating war and peace, hardships and prosperity. Three areas of reform and resistance are identified: structural reform of the political system to promote honesty and efficiency, social reform to provide justice to the lower classes, and moral reform to combat vice. “In the matter of corruption and reform, the constants might be stronger than the variables,” writes Merriner in the Preface. “The players, rules, and scorekeepers change, but not the essential game.” Complemented by eighteen illustrations, Grafters and Goo Goos is rife with shocking and amusing anecdotes and peppered with the personalities of famous muckrakers, bootleggers, mayors, and mobsters. While other studies have profiled infamous Chicago corruption cases and figures such as Al Capone and Richard J. Daley, this is the first to provide an overview appropriate for historians and general readers alike. In examining Chicago’s notorious saga of corruption and reform against a backdrop of social history, Merriner calls attention to our constant problems of both civic and national corruption and contributes to larger discussions about the American experiment of democratic self-government.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821394762

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Fighting Corruption in Public Services by World Bank Pdf

This book chronicles the anti-corruption reforms in public services in Georgia since the Rose Revolution in late 2003. Through a series of case studies, the book draws out the how of these reforms and distills the key success factors.

Author : Michael Johnston,Colgate University. Center for Ethics and World Societies
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 076183124X

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Civil Society and Corruption by Michael Johnston,Colgate University. Center for Ethics and World Societies Pdf

Strong civil societies play a major role in controlling corruption in many societies, and reformers agree that citizens, both individual and organized, should be involved in reform. But accomplishing that goal has proven difficult. Some civil societies are weak, divided, and impoverished. In others, undemocratic regimes dominate through intimidation. And in still others, development difficulties, international debt, and misguided aid efforts stop reform before it can begin. Too often, anti-corruption campaigns do not engage social values or attack corruption as people experience it every day. This volume, based on a yearlong series of events sponsored by Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies, analyzes civil society and corruption from several perspectives and in several parts of the world. One section considers corruption as a fact of everyday life, a second analyzes techniques and incentives involved in mobilizing civil society, and a third provides a unique guide to information resources on corruption and reform.

Author : Lisa A. Kihl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317387497

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Corruption in Sport by Lisa A. Kihl Pdf

Corruption in the sport industry is a pervasive issue that threatens the integrity of sport as an institution. From doping and match-fixing to money laundering, corruption should be a concern to anybody interested in sport policy, management, governance, or ethics. This is the first book to explore the complexity of sport corruption in terms of its conceptualisation, causes, consequences, and reform. The first part looks at the concept of sport corruption, while the second examines the causes of sport corruption from individual, organisational, industry-wide, and longitudinal viewpoints. The third part discussed is the consequences of sport corruption and its impact on the global sport industry. Various approaches to regulatory reform are considered in the next part, as well as the challenges of combatting corruption in the sport industry. The final part assesses the current state of literature in this area and suggests opportunities for future research. Drawing on multidisciplinary case studies from across the world, this is a seminal contribution to the academic study of corruption in sport. It is important reading for all students and scholars of sport management, business, criminology, and law.

Author : Maurice Punch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134028146

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Police Corruption by Maurice Punch Pdf

Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'? Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight. It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

Author : Glaeser, Edward Ludwig Glaeser,Claudia Dale Goldin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Corporations
ISBN : OCLC:501339832

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Corruption and Reform by Glaeser, Edward Ludwig Glaeser,Claudia Dale Goldin Pdf

Author : Lawrence W. Sherman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520319318

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Scandal and Reform by Lawrence W. Sherman Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Christiansen, Bryan,Sezerel, Hakan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799822400

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Economic, Educational, and Touristic Development in Asia by Christiansen, Bryan,Sezerel, Hakan Pdf

The progression of the independent states that were created after the collapse of the Soviet Union has become a prevalent area of research as these countries continue to make infrastructural strides. These regions possess vastly desirable natural resources including oil, gas, and minerals, causing this section of the world to have rising global importance as they continue to improve their economy, educational systems, and tourism industries. Economic, Educational, and Touristic Development in Asia is a pivotal reference source that provides a thorough examination of the contemporary progression of several recently formed countries within Central Asia. While highlighting topics such as hospitality marketing, anti-corruption reform, and entrepreneurship, this publication explores the technological, educational, and security enhancements being made in these areas, as well as how this region can strengthen its prosperity by strategically utilizing their globally-coveted natural resources. This book is ideally designed for economists, higher education faculty, provosts, chancellors, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, business professionals, marketers, restaurateurs, hotel managers, tour developers, travel agencies, government officials, strategists, educators, researchers, and graduate students.

Author : David Scott Witwer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252028252

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Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union by David Scott Witwer Pdf

Almost since its creation at the close of the nineteenth century, the Teamsters Union has had recurring problems with corruption. This book is the first in-depth historical study of the forces that have contributed to the Teamsters' troubled past, as well as the various mechanisms the union has employed -- from top-down directives to grass-roots measures -- to combat the spread of corruption. Arguing that the Teamsters Union was by its very nature especially vulnerable to certain forms of corruption, David Witwer charts the process by which organized crime came to play a significant role in sectors of the union, from low-level involvements of the 1930s to suspicions of mob ties among the union's upper echelons beginning in the 1950s. Witwer includes a detailed account of the links forged between the mafia and union head Jimmy Hoffa as well as the highly revealing McLellan Committee investigation that first brought these links to light.David Witwer is a former employee of the New York County District Attorney's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office. Drawing on hundreds of hours of tapes of activities and conversations in the offices of corrupt union officials, he brings his experience and insight to bear on the union's history, considering the subject from a range of perspectives that include the rank and file, the Teamster leadership, and the criminal element. He also examines the persistent efforts of labor opponents to capitalize on the union's unsavory reputation, fanning the flames of "crises of corruption" in order to influence popular and legislative opinion.