Corruption and Reform

Corruption and Reform
Author: Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226299597

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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.

Corruption and Government

Corruption and Government
Author: Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521659123

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How high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government.

Corruption and Government

Corruption and Government
Author: Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107081203

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

The Conundrum of Corruption

The Conundrum of Corruption
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 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.

Corruption and Reform in India

Corruption and Reform in India
Author: Jennifer Bussell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107379547

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Why do some governments improve public services more effectively than others? Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this fundamental question. In contrast to factors such as economic development or electoral competition, this study highlights the importance of access to rents, which can dramatically shape the opportunities and threats of reform to political elites. Drawing on a sub-national analysis of twenty Indian states, a field experiment, statistical modeling, case studies, interviews of citizens, bureaucrats and politicians, and comparative data from South Africa and Brazil, Bussell shows that the extent to which politicians rely on income from petty and grand corruption is closely linked to variation in the timing, management and comprehensiveness of reforms.

Corruption, Contention and Reform

Corruption, Contention and Reform
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 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.

Grafters and Goo Goos

Grafters and Goo Goos
Author: James L. Merriner
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780809325719

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Examines the roles of politicians and reformers in Chicago against a backdrop of social history from 1833-2003.

The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform

The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform
Author: Johann Graf Lambsdorff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2007-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1139464760

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Corruption has been a feature of public institutions for centuries yet only relatively recently has it been made the subject of sustained scientific analysis. Lambsdorff shows how insights from institutional economics can be used to develop a better understanding of why corruption occurs and the best policies to combat it. He argues that rather than being deterred by penalties, corrupt actors are more influenced by other factors such as the opportunism of their criminal counterparts and the danger of acquiring an unreliable reputation. This suggests a novel strategy for fighting corruption similar to the invisible hand that governs competitive markets. This strategy - the 'invisible foot' - shows that the unreliability of corrupt counterparts induces honesty and good governance even in the absence of good intentions. Combining theoretical research with state-of-the-art empirical investigations, this book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy-makers concerned with anti-corruption reform.

Police Corruption

Police Corruption
Author: Maurice Punch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134028148

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Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'? Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight. It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

Scandal and Reform

Scandal and Reform
Author: Lawrence W. Sherman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520319311

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.