Public Office, Private Interest
Public Office, Private Interest

Author: S.K. Das

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-12-11

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199087695

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This volume is about political corruption and the use of public office for private gain in India. A merit-based bureaucracy was launched in the nineteenth century to control corruption. This system with its pay structure that rewarded civil servants for honest effort was seen as the best solution to political corruption. It was based on the assumption that if merit was made the basis of administration, it would exclude private interest. However, the merit-based civil service system failed to restrain corruption because the ruling politicians had preferences on how to use a public bureaucracy and these preferences translated into an incentive structure, which governed the behaviour of civil servants. The author proposes an alternative paradigm—the New Public Management Modelߞwhich is being implemented in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden.

Corruption in India
Corruption in India

Author: N. Vittal

Publisher: Academic Foundation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9788171882878

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Penned by a recently-retired senior bureaucrat who is well versed in the administrative machinery of the Government of India and who possesses the ease and flair of a natural writer, these anecdotes of governmental corruption are at times so humourous that one forgets the gravity of the problem under discussion, while at other moments the magnitude of the problem is laid bare.

Combating Corruption in India
Combating Corruption in India

Author: Arvind Verma

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1108588506

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As corruption continues to be a persistent problem in India, concerned citizens believe empowered police agencies independent of political control are effective ways to deal with corrupt officials and politicians. What is corruption and how is it facilitated? What are the appropriate agencies to combat corruption professionally in India? Why are these not effective in deterring corrupt practices? Are the alternative solutions to tackle corruption successful? This book seeks to engage with these questions, discuss and analyze them, and conduct a thorough analysis of law, bureaucratic organizations, official data, case studies and comparative international institutions. It analyzes vast data to argue that a corrupt state only maintains the façade of rule of law but will not permit any inquiry beyond that of individual deviance. Using criminological perspectives, it presents a novel mechanism, the 'Doctrine of Good Housekeeping', for public officials to combat and prevent corruption within their own institutions.

Corruption and Government
Corruption and Government

Author: Susan Rose-Ackerman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 1107081203

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This new edition of a 1999 classic shows how institutionalized corruption can be fought through sophisticated political-economic reform.

Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India
Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India

Author: William Gould

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1136926801

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Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions that the state can primarily be associated with the top levels of government, and looks at citizens' approaches to local level bureaucracies and police. The central argument of the book is that deeply 'institutionalised' corruption in India could only have come about through the exercise of particular long term customs of interaction between agencies of the state - government servants and police, and their interactions with local politicians. Because the social hierarchies that condition such interactions are complicated by individual and family connections to state employment, periods of traumatic state transformation lead to a reconfiguration in the meaning of corruption in the local state. Based on principal primary sources and extensive field interviews, this book will be of interest to academics working on political science and Indian and South Asian history.

Red Tape
Red Tape

Author: Akhil Gupta

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0822351102

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Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.