The Concept Of Systemic Corruption In American Political And Economic History

Author : John Joseph Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : PSU:000055883993

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The Concept of Systemic Corruption in American Political and Economic History by John Joseph Wallis Pdf

The critical role of governance in the promotion of economic development has created intense interest in the manner in which the United States eliminated corruption. This paper examines the concept of corruption in American history; tracing the term corruption to its roots in British political philosophy of the 17th and 18th century, and from there back to Machiavelli, Polybius and Artistole. Corruption was defined prior to 1850 in a way that was significantly different from how it was defined in the Progressive Era. "Systematic corruption" embodied the idea that political actors manipulated the economic system to create economic rents that politicians could use to secure control of the government. In other words, politics corrupts economics. The classic cure for systematic corruption was balanced government. Americans fought for independence because they believed that the British government was corrupt. The structure of American constitutions was shaped by the need to implement balanced government. Conflict and debate over the implementation of balanced government dominated the political agenda until the 1840s, when states began moving regulatory policy firmly towards open entry and free competition. By the 1890s, systematic corruption had essentially appeared from political discourse. By then corruption had come to take on its modern meaning: the idea that economic interests corrupt the political process. What modern developing countries with corrupt governments need to learn is how the United States eliminated systematic corruption.

Author : Edward L. Glaeser,Claudia Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525654865

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On Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes Pdf

From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. “If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.

Author : Inge Amundsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 8290584407

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Political Corruption by Inge Amundsen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821346008

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Corrupt Cities by Anonim Pdf

Much of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Turkey was the result of widespread corruption between the construction industry and government officials. Corruption is part of everyday public life and we tend to take it for granted. However, preventing corruption helps to raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate public confidence and participation, and win elections. This book is designed to help citizens and public officials diagnose, investigate and prevent various kinds of corrupt and illicit behaviour. It focuses on systematic corruption rather than the free-lance activity of a few law-breakers, and emphasises practical preventive measures rather than purely punitive or moralistic campaigns.

Author : Eric M. Uslaner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416481

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The Historical Roots of Corruption by Eric M. Uslaner Pdf

This book argues that corruption levels today depend largely upon the level of education in a country over a century ago.

Author : John Girling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134744695

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Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy by John Girling Pdf

Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to overcome the contradiction of two important processes of our time: capitalism and democracy. In this new study of the phenomenon, the author shows how corruption is the practice of collusion taken to excess; 'the unacceptable face of capitalism'. Corruption, by 'going too far', exposes what is normally hidden from view; the collusive system of elites furthering the expansion of capitalist practice and market practice at the expense of democratic practice and public values.

Author : Charles H. Blake,Stephen D. Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973553

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Corruption & Democracy in Latin America by Charles H. Blake,Stephen D. Morris Pdf

A comparative analysis of the corruption of politics and democracy in Latin America focusing on Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico.

Author : Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000315980

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The Gilded Age by Mark Twain,Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Pregala Pillay,Sakhile Zondi,Purshottama Reddy,Chris Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527502420

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The Nexus between Poverty and Corruption by Pregala Pillay,Sakhile Zondi,Purshottama Reddy,Chris Jones Pdf

This book focuses on and analyses the multi-layered, multi-faceted, complex and complicated corruption phenomenon that undermines inter alia democracy, government, governance, development, rule of law, and accountability; how it harms a country’s reputation, deters trade and investment; distorts markets and the performance of economies and has negative effects on the environment for the present and the future generation while detailing the profound consequences for society, especially the poor and marginalised, by violating trust, human rights and increasing inequality. Corruption and poverty have become endemic evils in Africa and there is no blueprint solution for them, given the varying situations and conditions across the continent. This book proposes a holistic, all-inclusive, and multi-thronged approach to the corruption and poverty epidemic targeting Africa. This collection of chapters will be of interest to students and academics alike.

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815703969

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Corruption, Global Security, and World Order by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

Never before have world order and global security been threatened by so many destabilizing factors—from the collapse of macroeconomic stability to nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and tyranny. Corruption, Global Security, and World Order reveals corruption to be at the very center of these threats and proposes remedies such as positive leadership, enhanced transparency, tougher punishments, and enforceable sanctions. Although eliminating corruption is difficult, this book's careful prescriptions can reduce and contain threats to global security. Contributors: Matthew Bunn (Harvard University), Erica Chenoweth (Wesleyan University), Sarah Dix (Government of Papua New Guinea), Peter Eigen (Freie Universität, Berlin, and Africa Progress Panel), Kelly M. Greenhill (Tufts University), Charles Griffin (World Bank and Brookings), Ben W. Heineman Jr. (Harvard University), Nathaniel Heller (Global Integrity), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), Lucy Koechlin (University of Basel, Switzerland), Johann Graf Lambsdorff (University of Passau, Germany, and Transparency International), Robert Legvold (Columbia University), Emmanuel Pok (National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea), Susan Rose-Ackerma n (Yale University), Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona (United Nations), Daniel Jordan Smith (Brown University), Rotimi T. Suberu (Bennington College), Jessica C. Teets (Middlebury College), and Laura Underkuffler (Cornell University).

Author : Lucy Koechlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Kimberly Ann Elliott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881323238

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Corruption and the Global Economy by Kimberly Ann Elliott Pdf

The recently-adopted OECD convention outlawing bribery of foreign public officials is welcome evidence of how much progress has been made in the battle against corruption. The financial crisis in East Asia is an indication of how much remains to be done. Corruption is by no means a new issue but it has only recently emerged as a global issue. With the end of the Cold War, the pace and breadth of the trends toward democratization and international economic integration accelerated and expanded globally. Yet corruption could slow or even reverse these trends, potentially threatening economic development and political stability in some countries. As the global implications of corruption have grown, so has the impetus for international action to combat it. In addition to efforts in the OECD, the Organization of American States, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have both begun to emphasize corruption as an impediment to economic development. This book includes a chapter by the Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery discussing the evolution of the OECD convention and what is needed to make it effective. Other chapters address the causes and consequences of corruption, including the impact on investment and growth and the role of multinational corporations in discouraging bribery. The final chapter summarizes and also discusses some of the other anticorruption initiatives that either have been or should be adopted by governments, multilateral development banks, and other international organizations.

Author : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Stanley L. Winer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107052789

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Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez,Stanley L. Winer Pdf

This book explores the role that coercion plays in the establishment and evolution of the public economy.

Author : Joshua D. Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107012288

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Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 by Joshua D. Wolff Pdf

This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles that raged over Western Union's monopoly on nineteenth-century American telecommunications - in Congress, in courts, and in the press - illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of American political economy. The telegraph debate reveals that what we understand as the normative relationship between private capital and public interest is the product of a historical process that was neither inevitable nor uncontested. Western Union's monopoly was not the result of market logic or a managerial revolution, but the conscious creation of entrepreneurs protecting their investments. In the process, these entrepreneurs elevated economic liberalism above traditional republican principles of public interest and helped create a new corporate order.