Governments Ngos And Anti Corruption

Author : Luís de Sousa,Barry Hindess,Peter Larmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134035458

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Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption by Luís de Sousa,Barry Hindess,Peter Larmour Pdf

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.

Author : Luís de Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415466954

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Governments, NGOs and Anti-corruption: Vices and Virtues by Luís de Sousa Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264175365

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Anti-corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society's Involvement by OECD Pdf

This report provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an assessment of the legal and institutional environment in which civil society operates, together with recommendations for reform designed to enable civil society organisations and others to play a role in the fight against corruption.

Author : Yahong Zhang,Cecilia Lavena
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498712026

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Government Anti-Corruption Strategies by Yahong Zhang,Cecilia Lavena Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850926440

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Fighting Corruption, Promoting Good Governance by Anonim Pdf

This publication presents a framework for Commonwealth Principles on Promoting Good Governance and Combating Corruption. It was endorsed by Heads of Government at their Summit in Durban in 1999 as the basis for pursuing concerted strategies based on "zero tolerance" for all types of corruption at national and global levels. This publication includes the full report of the Expert Group. It examines the nature of corruption and its different dimensions as well as appropriate responses to the problems it poses. The book proposes actions at national and international levels which the Group sees as being necessary if countries are to successfully combat corruption and promote good governance.

Author : Jesper Johnsøn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784719715

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Anti-Corruption Strategies in Fragile States by Jesper Johnsøn Pdf

Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption, Jesper Johnsøn finds significant variance in strategic direction and common failures in implementation.

Author : Ting Gong,Ian Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317507888

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Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia by Ting Gong,Ian Scott Pdf

Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to ‘white elephant’ projects that do little more than line the pockets of developers and their political partners. The Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia addresses the theories, issues and trends in corruption and anticorruption reform that have emerged from this diverse experience. The book is divided into four major parts: corruption and the state; corruption and economic development; corruption and society; and controlling corruption: strategies, successes and failures. Chapters compare and contrast corruption in different social and institutional contexts, examine both successful and unsuccessful attempts to control it, and consider what lessons can be drawn from these Asian experiences. This academically rigorous and insightful book will be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly those of Asian studies, politics and sociology.

Author : Melchior Powell,Dina Wafa,Tim A. Mau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000733488

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Corruption in a Global Context by Melchior Powell,Dina Wafa,Tim A. Mau Pdf

This book provides an important survey of the causes and current state of corruption across a range of nations and regions. Delving into the diverse ways in which corruption is being combatted, the book explores and describes efforts to inculcate principles of ethical conduct in citizens, private sector actors and public sector personnel and institutions. Corruption is a global condition that effects every type of government, at every level, and has bewitched scholars of governance from ancient times to the present day. The book brings together chapters on a range of state and regional corruption experiences, framing them in terms of efforts to enhance ethical conduct and achieve integrity in government practices and operations. In addition, the book addresses and analyses the theoretical and practical bases of ethics that form the background and historical precepts of efforts to create integrity in government practices, and finally assesses recent international efforts to address corruption on an international scale. This book will be perfect for researchers and upper level students of public administration, comparative government, international development, criminal justice, and corruption.

Author : Anwar Shah
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821369425

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Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption by Anwar Shah Pdf

Performance based oversight and accountability can serve as an important antidote to government corruption, inefficiency, and waste. This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, network solutions to performance measurement and improvement; institutions of accountability in governance; legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability; ensuring integrity of revenue administration; the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption; and the role of parliamentary budget offices and public accounts committees.

Author : Alina Mungiu-Pippidi,Michael Johnston
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786439154

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Transitions to Good Governance by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi,Michael Johnston Pdf

Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere façade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In this unique book, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Michael Johnston lead a team of eminent researchers on an illuminating path towards deconstructing the few virtuous circles in contemporary governance. The book combines a solid theoretical framework with quantitative evidence and case studies from around the world. While extracting lessons to be learned from the success cases covered, Transitions to Good Governance avoids being prescriptive and successfully contributes to the understanding of virtuous circles in contemporary good governance.

Author : Michael Johnston,Scott A. Fritzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Laura Routley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317216230

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Negotiating Corruption by Laura Routley Pdf

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'. NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform governance by bringing about changes in culture and instituting bureaucratic norms. They have, therefore, been seen as part of the apparatus of a global liberal governmentality. This book complicates this portrayal and highlights the ambiguous role of liberal governmentality through an exploration of the 'grey practices' of the NGOs studied. These practices are 'grey' as they do not fit the pattern of virtuous NGOs holding the state to account described in development policy, yet at the same time they ensure that the state produces the outcomes that a fully-functioning state ought to. This enacting of oppositional and antagonistic elements is further unpacked in conversation with Homi Bhabha's concepts of negotiation and hybridity. Negotiating Corruption draws attention to both the limitations of current explanations of corruption in Africa and the problematic way in which they are framed. The book's detailed engagement with understandings of corruption within policy and academic debates will make it a useful resource for undergraduate teaching. It will also be of keen interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who engage with the issues of corruption, NGOs, civil society, African politics, governmentality, and hybridity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CSD
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN : 9789544771287

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Anti-corruption Reforms in Bulgaria by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000487862

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The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America by Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez Pdf

This book investigates the history, development, and current state of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America. In recent decades, specialized anti-corruption agencies have sprung up as countries seek to respond to corruption and to counter administrative and political challenges. However, the characteristics, resources, power, and performance of these agencies reflect the political and economic environment in which they operate. This book draws on a range of case studies from across Latin America, considering both national anti-corruption bodies and agencies created and administered by, or in close coordination with, international organizations. Together, these stories demonstrate the importance of the political will of reformers, the private interests of key actors, the organizational space of other agencies, the position of advocacy groups, and the level of support from the public at large. This book will be a key resource for researchers across political science, corruption studies, development, and Latin American Studies. It will also be a valuable guide for policy makers and professionals in NGOs and international organizations working on anti-corruption advocacy and policy advice.

Author : Diana Schmidt-Pfister,Holger Moroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135699635

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Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe by Diana Schmidt-Pfister,Holger Moroff Pdf

Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most of these countries have shown an impressive record of respective measures. Yet path-breaking institutional and policy developments have not set in before the mid-2000s both at the international level and in most Eastern European countries. Are these the beginnings of a mutually synergetic success story? In order to answer this question, we need to better understand the complex interplay between the international and domestic domains in this policy field and geographic region. This book provides in-depth and comparative insights about this interplay, with a particular focus on the involvement of domestic social movements, governmental political machines and international legal mechanisms. We find that, on all three levels of analysis, political and material interests of relevant actors are complemented and at times contradicted by normative claims. Moreover, at the interfaces of the three levels, coincidental and spontaneous developments have largely outweighed systematic implementation and coordination of appropriate anti-corruption strategies. This book is based on a special issue of Global Crime.