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Corruption and Development: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns(Palgrave Studies in Development)

Corruption and Development: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns(Palgrave Studies in Development)


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This collection examines anti-corruption campaigns and argues that they have often resulted in perverse and unintended consequences. The book examines how corruption has been addressed (and sometimes tolerated) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and East & Central Europe to interrogate government policy and question development discourse and practice.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; D.Brown Editor's Preface; S.Bracking PART I: INTRODUCTION Political Development and Corruption: Are Governments More Corrupt Than They Used to Be?; S.Bracking The Limits of a Global Campaign Against Corruption; K.Ivanov Economic Models of Corruption; V.Fitzsimons PART II: CORRUPTION, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGNS Tickling Donors and Tackling Opponents: The Anti-Corruption Crusade in Malawi; D.Hall-Matthews Corruption and Reform in Nigeria; P.Okojie & A.Momoh Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policies in Post-Communist Countries; A.Zagainova Political Corruption in Georgia; N.Dadalauri Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Institution-Building Interventions in Jamaica; P.Osei Governance, Neoliberalism and Corruption in Nicaragua; E.Browne , J.Cloke & J.L.Rocha PART III: PUBLIC POLICY AND ANTI-CORRUPTION Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana: Does Gender Matter?; N.A.Alolo Upgrading Democracy in Mozambique: The Question of Party and Election Finance; B.Speck Accountability in Development Finance: Between the Market and a Soft Place; S.Bracking Why Anti-Corruption Initiatives Fail: Technology Transfer and Contextual Collusion; R.Heeks Strengthening Checks and Balances in Financial Governance: The Evolving Role of Multilateral Banks in Latin America; C.Santiso PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion; S.Bracking & K.Ivanov

About the Author :
SARAH BRACKING is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Development at the University of Manchester, UK, where she teaches courses on the political economy of development, and politics and development. Her research focuses on the politics of development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the political economy of development finance.

Review :
'This book is an important contribution to the study of corruption.' - Political Studies Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780230525504
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns
  • ISBN-10: 0230525504
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2007
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Development
  • Width: 140 mm


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