Global Corruption Report 2007

Global Corruption Report 2007

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-24

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521700702

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The Global Corruption Report 2007 looks at how, why and where corruption mars judicial processes, and to reflect on remedies for corruption-tainted systems. The book focuses on judges and courts but situates them within the broader justice system - police, prosecutors, lawyers and agencies responsible for enforcing judicial decisions. It also looks at the social context of the judiciary and shows how societal expectations, the existence of non-state justice mechanisms and the strength of informal networks that circumvent the justice system, all have a bearing on judicial corruption. The book takes a close look at the two main judicial corruption problems: political interference and petty bribery by court personnel. The 37 country case studies and a series of concrete recommendations for judges, political powers, businesses, lawyers, prosecutors, academics, NGOs and donors are supplemented by 15 empirical studies of corruption in various sectors, including the justice sector.


Global Corruption Report 2008

Global Corruption Report 2008

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-06-26

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0521727952

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The Global Corruption Report examines corruption in the water sector, documents worldwide corruption-related developments and presents research projects on corruption.


Measuring Corruption

Measuring Corruption

Author: Arthur Shacklock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1317099192

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With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing. The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices. The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier. Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing once-only incentives for corruption on an unprecedented scale, as officials not only deal with the income of the state, but with its assets as well. In this book, Transparency International's (TI) world-renowned 'Corruption Perception Index' (CPI) and 'Bribery Perception Index' (BPI) are explained and examined by a group of experts. They set out to establish to what extent they are reliable measures of corruption and whether a series of surveys can measure changes in corruption and the effectiveness of anti-corruption strategies. The book contains a variety of expert contributions which deal with the complexity, difficulty and potential for measuring corruption as the key to developing effective strategies for combating it.


Global Corruption Report: Climate Change

Global Corruption Report: Climate Change

Author: Transparency International

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1317972201

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The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to jeopardise these efforts. Transparency International's Global Corruption Report: Climate Change is the first publication to comprehensively explore such corruption risks. More than fifty leading experts and practitioners contribute, covering four key areas: governance: investigating major governance challenges towards tackling climate change mitigating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions with transparency and accountability adapting to climate change: identifying corruption risks in climate-proofing development, financing and implementation of adaptation forestry governance: responding to the corruption challenges plaguing the forestry sector, and how these challenges need to be integrated into current international strategies to halt deforestation and promote reforestation. The Global Corruption Report: Climate Change provides essential policy analysis to help policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders understand these risks and develop effective responses at a critical point in time when the main architecture for climate governance is being developed.


Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries

Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries

Author: Jon S. T. Quah

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-07-21

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0857248197

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As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This book analyzes and evaluates the anti-corruption strategies employed in Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.


Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe

Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe

Author: Philip Gounev

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0415693624

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This book presents a discussion of the relation between organized criminals and corruption in the EU's 27 Member States. The book draws on research and scholarly work carried out to provide an analysis of the specific national contexts in which corruption and organised crime thrive, and presents case studies, written by some of the foremost international experts on the subject matter, analysing corrupt exchange and criminal organisations.


Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective

Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective

Author: Kirk A. Hawkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-12

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 052176503X

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This book examines the populist movement of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and argues that populism is primarily a response to widespread corruption. It defends a definition of populism as a set of ideas and measures populism across Venezuela and other countries. It also explores the influence of populist ideas on political organization and policy.


New Courts in Asia

New Courts in Asia

Author: Andrew Harding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 113518271X

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This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of ‘new courts’ over the last 20 years. Contributors discuss how to judge new courts and examine whether the many new courts introduced over this period in Asia have succeeded or failed. The ‘new courts’ under scrutiny are mainly specialist courts, including those established to hear cases involving intellectual property disputes, bankruptcy petitions, commercial contracts, public law adjudication, personal law issues and industrial disputes. The justification of the trend to ‘judicialize’ disputes has seen the invocation of Western-style rule of law as necessary for the development of the market economy, democratization, good governance and the upholding of human rights. This book also includes critics of court building who allege that it serves a Western agenda rather than serving local interests, and that the emphasis on judicialization marginalises alternative local and traditional modes of dispute resolution. Adopting an explicitly comparative perspective, and contrasting the experiences of important Asian states - China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia - this book considers critical questions including: Why has the ‘new-court model’ been adopted, and why do international development agencies and nation-states tend to favour it? What difficulties have the new courts encountered? How have the new courts performed? What are the broader implications of the trend towards the adoption of judicial solutions to economic, social and political problems? Written by world authorities on court development in Asia, this book will not only be of interest to legal scholars and practitioners, but also to development specialists, economists and political scientists.


Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

Author: W. Benedek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-05-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0230281478

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This volume investigates the role of the transnational terrorist and criminal organizations in the peace-building processes, with a particular focus on the Western Balkan region. Conducted within the framework of human security analysis, the research focuses on the security of the human being.