Corruption, Contention and Reform

Corruption, Contention and Reform

Author: Michael Johnston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107034744

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


The Conundrum of Corruption

The Conundrum of Corruption

Author: Michael Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-30

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1000317579

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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.


Syndromes of Corruption

Syndromes of Corruption

Author: Michael Johnston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781139448451

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Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic development in many societies. It arises in the ways people pursue, use and exchange wealth and power, and in the strength or weakness of the state, political and social institutions that sustain and restrain those processes. Differences in these factors, Michael Johnston argues, give rise to four major syndromes of corruption: Influence Markets, Elite Cartels, Oligarchs and Clans, and Official Moguls. In this 2005 book, Johnston uses statistical measures to identify societies in each group, and case studies to show that the expected syndromes do arise. Countries studied include the United States, Japan and Germany (Influence Markets); Italy, Korea and Botswana (Elite Cartels); Russia, the Philippines and Mexico (Oligarchs and Clans); and China, Kenya, and Indonesia (Offical Moguls). A concluding chapter explores reform, emphasising the ways familiar measures should be applied - or withheld, lest they do harm - with an emphasis upon the value of 'deep democratisation'.


Corrupt Cities

Corrupt Cities

Author:

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780821346006

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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.


The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics

Author: Peter Munk Christiansen

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 0198833598

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The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics provides the most comprehensive and thorough English language book on Danish politics ever written. It features chapters by 50 leading experts who have contributed extensively to the field they write about. Why is Denmark an interesting topic for a Handbook? In some respects, Danish political institutions and political life are very similar to that of other small, North European countries such as the other Scandinavian countries and Netherland. However, in other respects, Danish politics is interesting in its own right. For instance, Denmark has a world record in minority governments. According to standard scholarly knowledge, this should result in unstable governments and a bad economy. This is not the case, however, since Denmark has a rather stable political system and a strong and robust economy among the strongest in Europe. How? The Danes have continued reservations towards the EU despite close to 50 years of EC/EU membership, and the Danes rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Still, the EU issue is handled in ways that do not call for large political battles. How? A third example is that Denmark used to be known as a tolerant and liberal society; its Jews were almost all saved during German occupation during WWII, Denmark was the first country to free pornography, and the first country to formally register same-sex couples. Yet recent Danish politics has also been associated with xenophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments. Why?


The Many Faces of Corruption

The Many Faces of Corruption

Author: J. Edgardo Campos

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2007-04-04

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0821367269

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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.


Small Change

Small Change

Author: Raymond J. La Raja

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2008-03-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780472050284

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All democracies face the dilemma of how to pay for politics. Money fuels the campaigns that inform and mobilize voters. But private political contributions raise the specter of undue influence, or, worse, political corruption. This book reviews the history of America's efforts at federal campaign finance reform.


Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China

Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China

Author: Ralph Thaxton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-05

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 0521722306

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Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.


Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State

Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State

Author: Susan Rose-Ackerman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1784714704

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What makes the control of corruption so difficult and contested? Drawing on the insights of political science, economics and law, the expert contributors to this book offer diverse perspectives. One group of chapters explores the nature of corruption in democracies and autocracies, and “reforms” that are mere facades. Other contributions examine corruption in infrastructure, tax collection, cross-border trade, and military procurement. Case studies from various regions – such as China, Peru, South Africa and New York City – anchor the analysis with real-world situations. The book pays particular attention to corruption involving international business and the domestic regulation of foreign bribery.


Dirty Entanglements

Dirty Entanglements

Author: Louise I. Shelley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107015642

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Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism.