Independence Corrupted

Author : Charles Benjamin Schudson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299320300

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Independence Corrupted by Charles Benjamin Schudson Pdf

With experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings—of abortion protesters, murderers, sex predators, white supremacists, and others. He takes us into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions about life and death, multimillion-dollar damages, and priceless civil rights. And, most significantly, he exposes the financial, political, personal, and professional pressures that threaten judicial ethics and independence. As political attacks on judges increase, Schudson calls for reforms to protect judicial independence and for vigilance to ensure justice for all. Independence Corrupted is invaluable for students and scholars, lawyers and judges, and all citizens concerned about the future of America's courts.

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317473299

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Debating Political Reform in China by Suisheng Zhao Pdf

The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While some expect China's political reform to lead to democratization, others have proposed to strengthen the institution of single-party rule and provide it with a solid legal base. This book brings the ongoing debate to life and explores the options for political reform. Offering the perspectives of both Western and Chinese scholars, it presents the controversial argument for building a consultive rule of law regime as an alternative to liberal democracy. It provides several critiques of this thesis, and then tests the thesis through empirical studies on the development of the rule of law in China.

Author : Zephyr Teachout
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674050402

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Corruption in America by Zephyr Teachout Pdf

When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King’s portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to “corrupt” Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. This broad understanding of political corruption—rooted in ideals of civic virtue—was a driving force at the Constitutional Convention. For two centuries the framers’ ideas about corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected officials. Should a law that was passed by a state legislature be overturned because half of its members were bribed? What kinds of lobbying activity were corrupt, and what kinds were legal? When does an implicit promise count as bribery? In the 1970s the U.S. Supreme Court began to narrow the definition of corruption, and the meaning has since changed dramatically. No case makes that clearer than Citizens United. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing more than explicit bribery, a narrow conception later echoed by Chief Justice Roberts in deciding McCutcheon v. FEC in 2014. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Zephyr Teachout, Citizens United and McCutcheon were not just bad law but bad history. If the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal.

Author : Andrew Nongogo
Publisher : Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa (SAHRIT)
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Anti-corruption
ISBN : UOM:39015074260525

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Independence of Anti-corruption Agencies by Andrew Nongogo Pdf

Author : Alfonso W. Quiroz
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0801891280

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Corrupt Circles by Alfonso W. Quiroz Pdf

The pervasiveness of corruption has been aided by the readiness of both Peruvians and the international community to turn a blind eye.

Author : J. Edgardo Campos,Sanjay Pradhan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821367269

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The Many Faces of Corruption by J. Edgardo Campos,Sanjay Pradhan Pdf

Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this socialpandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water andelectricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, and the management of public revenues, corruption shows its many faces. 'The Many Faces of Corruption' attempts to bring greater clarity to the often murky manifestations of this virulent and debilitating social disease. It explores the use of prototype road maps to identify corruption vulnerabilities, suggests corresponding 'warning signals,' and proposes operationally useful remedial measures in each of several selected sectors and for a selected sampleof cross cutting public sector functions that are particularlyprone to corruption and that are critical to sector performance.Numerous technical experts have come together in this effort to develop an operationally useful approach to diagnosing and tackling corruption. 'The Many Faces of Corruption' is an invaluable reference for policymakers, practitioners, andresearchers engaged in the business of development.

Author : PSJ (Peet) Schutte
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291492156

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EXPOSING CORRUPT SCIENCE by PSJ (Peet) Schutte Pdf

Author : Stuart H. Deming
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bribery
ISBN : 1604426047

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the New International Norms by Stuart H. Deming Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the FCPA and significantly expands upon the first with critical updates reflecting the latest developments of the Act; a broader and more expansive analysis of the FCPA, including those aspects that relate directly to Sarbanes-Oxley; and a detailed analysis of the debarment practices associated with the anti-corruption policies of the World Bank Group.

Author : PSJ (Peet) Schutte
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781291491128

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UNCOVERING CORRUPT SCIENCE by PSJ (Peet) Schutte Pdf

Modern science or what I call Newtonian science is altogether wrong. Nothing can stand still in the Universe and remain a part of the Universe. The Universe is the movement thereof. Everything in the Universe has to move should it wish to be ... and everything in the Universe moves ... and in circles but everything moves. There is no mass but only movement and movement is gravity and gravity is time forming space. But how does this system work and how does this system form an entire Universe as big as the one we have. Read this and see how the Universe is truly stitched together by nature and not by Newton's fantasy. It works exactly as Kepler said it does in the tables Kepler left us to study. Space by three forms a circle by two that moves straight by one and that forms the six sided Universe we enjoy as a reality...

Author : O. Chidi Ogbonna
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783748720195

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Fairly, Fully, Fatally Corrupt: by O. Chidi Ogbonna Pdf

Fairly, Fully, Fatally Corrupt: Epochal Dimensions to Governance abd Corruption in Nigeria, also known as F 3 Corrupt, is a carefully analyxed input to the already flourishing genre of anti-corruption literature in Nigeria. F3 Corrupt focuses on Nigeria's governance because of the conviction of the author that the three levels of incidental, institutional and systemic corruption prevalent in contemporary Nigeria, is fuelled, propelled and sustained through corruption in Nigeria's governance. The volume seeks to set the records straight on how governance in Nigeria progressively deteriorated from fairly corrupt, to full-blown corruption and now to fatal corruption in contemporary times, making corruption to arguably become the most dominant phenomenon in today;s Nigeria. ABOUT THE AUTHOR O. Chidi Ogbonna is an experienced, resourceful, articulate and versatilr international criminal justice expert, with over a decade's transnational organised crime law enforcement track record, and research consultancy and training for such orrganizations as the UNODC Office in Nigeria; the Kofi Anan International Peace keeing Training Centre, Accra, Ghana and the National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria. Mr. Ogbonna has also reviewed for the Commonwealth Law Bulletin, London, UK, and is also the creator of Integrity Consolidated Education gane, for preventing crime and communicating behaviour change among pre- and young teens in Nigeria. Mr. Ogbonna lives and works in Abuja, Nigeria, with his wife and children.

Author : Abdullahi Haruna
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668945968

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Treatment of corruption in Festus Iyayi's "The Contract" by Abdullahi Haruna Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2008 in the subject Literature - Africa, , language: English, abstract: Corruption has been considered endemic to Nigeria. How do Nigerian literary artists depict this social illness in their literary works? This article examines the treatment of corruption in Iyayi’s "The Contract". The discourse focuses on the social levels at which corruption is manifested and the effects of corruption on individuals and the society as depicted in the novel. The results will indicate that the novel exposes some identified social ills which become endemic when political and institutional leaders put aside their responsibilities of nation building and succumb to the lure of lucre. Specifically, the leaders depicted in this novel use the awards of contracts ostensibly for nation building as blinds for corrupt self-enrichment and embezzlements of public funds.

Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610278331

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Harvard Law Review: Volume 128, Number 5 - March 2015 by Harvard Law Review Pdf

The Harvard Law Review, March 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, "Creating Around Copyright," Joseph P. Fishman • Book Review, "Growing Up Outside the Law," Stephen Lee • Book Review, "Property Is the New Privacy: The Coming Constitutional Revolution," Suzanna Sherry • Note, "Working Together for an Independent Expenditure: Candidate Assistance with Super PAC Fundraising" In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: defining 'government instrumentality' under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, invalidation of New York soda-portion cap, whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lacks jurisdiction over rates for nonconsumption of energy, standard of review for compelled disclosures under commercial speech doctrine, Alien Tort Statute claims against an Abu Ghraib contractor, preemption of local zoning ordinances banning hydrofracking, and the Department of Justice's new presumption of electronically recording custodial interviews. Finally, the issue features several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2500 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This issue of the Review is March 2015, the fifth issue of academic year 2014-2015 (Volume 128). The digital edition features active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting.

Author : Peter Herrmann
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594542643

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Utopia Between Corrupted Public Responsibility and Contested Modernisation by Peter Herrmann Pdf

In the present volume Cathal O'Connel looks at the retreat of the public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures actually affect largely the entire modes of living together societally and socially -- accommodation and settlement structures are reconstructed under a certain aegis of privatised options -- of which an enforced opting-out is one of the forms of the de-civilising role of the 'regulated de-regulation', by which the state is backing out public responsibility, creating space for a new 'invisible hand', though this is highly visible in form of multinational capital. The same shift of the 'individualisation of the social' is pertinent in third level education which Deirdre Ryan and Peter Herrmann are investigating. In the EU, the current debate on what is called 'Services of General Interests' the focus is on access and quality. Ryan/Herrmann clarify in a distinguished way that in this educational context economy matters not only in regard of accessibility, but as well in quality not least in the meaning of 'trimming substance'. What in these cases is more linked to individual policy areas, radiating and affecting indirectly the entire societal and social fabric, is mirrored and coined by the wider mechanisms of policy making and actually politics. Catherine Forde points on respective mechanisms in local government, making clear that formal restructuration actually does not open 'closed systems'; instead they create a kind of black whole -- claims of opening spaces for participation degenerate into unlevelled playgrounds. Problems of balancing such 'open spaces' between the formal openness and the actually available 'real living space' are topical in Rosie Meade's contribution. It is getting obvious that responsibility is both a question of rights and personal commitment. Joe Finnerty in his contribution points on the most important fact, that the role of scientific research and the measurement of social and societal processes is as well not least a matter of commitment -- it has to be guaranteed and clarified and 'objective reason' is not concerned with expelling subjective factors and artificially reducing complexity by constructing arithmetical constraints; instead, the development of indicator-oriented methods has to sublate and supersede complexity.

Author : Daniel Jordan Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0691127220

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A Culture of Corruption by Daniel Jordan Smith Pdf

Corruption is so widespread in Nigeria that its citizens call it simply 'the Nigerian factor.' This book aims to understand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead - or just survive - in a society riddled with corruption.

Author : Emmanuel Kreike,William C. Jordan
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461735

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Corrupt Histories by Emmanuel Kreike,William C. Jordan Pdf

Corruption is a preoccupation of governments and societies across place and time, from the 18th-19th Century British, Chinese, and Iberian empires to 20th Century Nazi Germany, Russia, the United States, and India. This study offers three different perspectives on corruption. The first chapters highlight corrupt practices, taking as a point of departure a technocratic definition of corruption. The second part of the book views corruption through the lens of discourses of corruption, revealing that accusations of corruption have been employed as tools, often in the context of contestations of power. The essays in the third part of the book treat corruption as a process, taking into account its causes and effects and their impact on society, economics, and politics. Contributors: Jeremy Adelman, Virginie Coulloudon, William Doyle, Diego Gambetta, Norman J. W. Goda, Robert Gregg, Michael Johnston, William Chester Jordan, Emmanuel Kreike, Vinod Pavarala, Dilip Simeon, Pierre-Etienne Will, David Witwer, Philip Woodfine William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University; Emmanuel Kreike is Assistant Professor of African History and Director of the African Studies Program at Princeton University