Institutionalized Corruption And The Kleptocratic State

Author : Mr.Joshua Charap,Christian Harm
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451851496

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State by Mr.Joshua Charap,Christian Harm Pdf

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state of pure anarchy. A dictator minimizes the probability of a palace revolution by creating a system of patronage and loyalty through corrupt bureaucracy. Competitive corruption patterns are associated with anarchy and weak dictators, while strong dictators implement a system of monopolistic corruption. Efforts at public sector reform may meet resistance in countries featuring such systemic corruption.

Author : Joshua Charap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1291216458

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State by Joshua Charap Pdf

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state of pure anarchy. A dictator minimizes the probability of a palace revolution by creating a system of patronage and loyalty through corrupt bureaucracy. Competitive corruption patterns are associated with anarchy and weak dictators, while strong dictators implement a system of monopolistic corruption. Efforts at public sector reform may meet resistance in countries featuring such systemic corruption.

Author : Joshua Charap,Christian Harm,International monetary fund. African department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:860283099

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Cleptocratic State by Joshua Charap,Christian Harm,International monetary fund. African department Pdf

Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393246537

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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. "I can’t imagine a more important book for our time." —Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts from the Afghanistan war, Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption. Since the late 1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments resemble glorified criminal gangs, bent solely on their own enrichment. These kleptocrats drive indignant populations to extremes—ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion. Chayes plunges readers into some of the most venal environments on earth and examines what emerges: Afghans returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak government (but also redesigning Al-Qaeda), and Nigerians embracing both radical evangelical Christianity and the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. In many such places, rigid moral codes are put forth as an antidote to the collapse of public integrity. The pattern, moreover, pervades history. Through deep archival research, Chayes reveals that canonical political thinkers such as John Locke and Machiavelli, as well as the great medieval Islamic statesman Nizam al-Mulk, all named corruption as a threat to the realm. In a thrilling argument connecting the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Thieves of State presents a powerful new way to understand global extremism. And it makes a compelling case that we must confront corruption, for it is a cause—not a result—of global instability.

Author : Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.George T. Abed
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1589061160

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Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance by Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.George T. Abed Pdf

This volume presents 18 IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce poverty. The authors examine how civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of poverty, and the effect of corruption on government expenditures on health and education.

Author : Dele Olowu,Paulos Chanie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319206424

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State Fragility and State Building in Africa by Dele Olowu,Paulos Chanie Pdf

This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent’s citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the drivers of fragility and the impact of fragility on citizens and neighbouring states, the book discusses capacity building approaches. This part shows how effective states can be built on the African continent, a process that would result in a change from state fragility to state resilience. It is based on lessons learnt from close studies of the nations where the state has been most developed in the region, in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book provides and responds to the most recent and up-to-date information on African development and uses insights of people who have lived and worked in the continent for most of their lives.

Author : Sue Cavill
Publisher : Wedc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Corruption
ISBN : 1843801124

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Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption by Sue Cavill Pdf

This review describes accountability arrangements to combat corruption in the infrastructure sector. The sustainability of the livelihoods of the poor in low- and middle-income countries is compromised by corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. Such services include water supply, sanitation, drainage, the provision of access roads and paving, transport, solid waste management, street lighting and community buildings. For this reason, The Water, Engineering Development Centre, (WEDC) at Loughborough University in the UK is conducting research into anti-corruption initiatives in this area of infrastructure services delivery. This series of reports has been produced as part of a project entitled Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption, which was initially funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government. The purpose of the work is to improve governance through the use of accountability arrangements to combat corruption in the delivery of infrastructure services. These findings, reviews, country case studies, case surveys and practical tools provide evidence of how anti-corruption initiatives in infrastructure delivery can contribute to the improvement of the lives of the urban poor. The main objective of the research is the analysis of corruption in infrastructure delivery. This includes a review of accountability initiatives in infrastructure delivery and the nature of the impact of greater accountability.

Author : Lucy Koechlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004252981

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Corruption as an Empty Signifier by Lucy Koechlin Pdf

Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.

Author : Gerry Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Administrative Law
ISBN : OCLC:1026999019

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Global Corruption by Gerry Ferguson Pdf

This book has been specifically created to make it easier for professors to offer a law school course on global corruption. It is issued under a creative commons license and can be used for free in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes. The first chapter sets out the general context of global corruption: its nature and extent, and some views on its historical, social, economic and political dimensions. Each subsequent chapter sets out international standards and requirements in respect to combating corruption - mainly in the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and the OECD Bribery of Foreign Officials Convention (OECD Convention). The laws of the United States and United Kingdom are then set out as examples of how those Convention standards and requirements are met in two influential jurisdictions. Finally, the law of Canada is set out. Thus, a professor from Africa, Australia, New Zealand or English speaking countries in Asia and Europe has a nearly complete coursebook - for example, that professor can delete the Canadian sections of this book and insert the law and practices of his or her home country in their place. While primarily directed to a law school course on global corruption, this book will be of interest and use to professors teaching courses on corruption from other academic disciplines and to lawyers and other anti-corruption practitioners.

Author : Richard Rose,Caryn Peiffer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319928463

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Bad Governance and Corruption by Richard Rose,Caryn Peiffer Pdf

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 : Daniel Daianu,Thanos Veremis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135277130

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Balkan Reconstruction by Daniel Daianu,Thanos Veremis Pdf

Focusing scholarly attention on a little known area of Europe, the book brings together analysts with an insider's view to examine the short and long-term challenges facing the region, the intricate relationship between politics and economics and the irrelevance of quick fixes in the postwar reform of Southeast Europe.

Author : M. Hakan Yavuz,Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000727074

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Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey by M. Hakan Yavuz,Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Pdf

Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey explores the role of religion (Sunni, Hanefi Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). The chapters argue that the Turkish understanding of secularism was also one of the building blocks and the constitutive elements of Turkey’s modernization until the rise of the AKP. Currently, however, it seems that religion has become a new or re-born element of the new Turkey and has been transforming many areas such as: the media, the Kurdish issue, implementation of the rule of law, foreign policy and gender issues. This book therefore aims to scrutinize the question: how does a religion-based transformation in Turkey influence the raison d’etat of the state, and effect in various ways different areas such as gender, foreign policy, economy and socio-political relations of various power groups within the society? Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Politics, and governance in Turkey. It was originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821348027

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Anticorruption in Transition by Anonim Pdf

With the increasing recognition across the world of the damaging effects of corruption on economic growth and social stability. This report seeks to unpack the varied practices of corruption to identify and compare different patterns of the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It then draws out lessons for tailoring anticorruption strategies to address the variation across the region in an effort to target reforms more effectively. The report draws on many sources of ongoing research and lessons of experience, including the World Bank's work in this area. It is intended as a contribution to the growing policy dialogue on developing practical strategies for reducing corruption.

Author : Timothy Lindsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law reform
ISBN : 9780415378598

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Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States by Timothy Lindsey Pdf

This informative book examines examples of law reform projects in post-socialist and post-authoritarian states in Asia, identifies common problems, and proposes analytical frameworks for understanding them.

Author : Donatella della Porta,Alberto Vannucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317029113

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The Hidden Order of Corruption by Donatella della Porta,Alberto Vannucci Pdf

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that govern and stabilize the links between corrupters and corruptees. Concentrating mainly on democratic regimes, this book uses a wide range of documentation, including media and judicial sources from Italy and other countries, to locate the internal equilibria and dynamics of corruption in a broad and comparative perspective. It also analyses the Transparency International Annual Reports and the daily survey of international news to present evidence on specific cases of corruption within an institutional theory framework.