Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture in a Globalized World: (Routledge Research in Public Law)

This collection examines the difficult task of reforming governments worldwide to meet citizens’ needs and aspirations. It advances constructive efforts to enhance public accountability while recognizing the complex ways in which corruption, greed, and state capture undermine the legitimacy and performance of government. The contributors are political scientists, lawyers, and economists who bring a cross-disciplinary approach to their chosen subjects. The first group of chapters deals with public sector performance, development, and public participation. Complementary pieces by a practitioner and a scholar confront the challenges of achieving reform in countries with difficult political environments and extensive poverty and inequality. The second group emphasizes the way corruption and state capture limit the accountability and effectiveness of governments in both developing and wealthy countries. The contributions consider the institutional roots of dysfunctional government and their links to the private sector. Taken together, the volume surveys a wide range of topics with theoretical arguments and empirical findings that provide insights into real-world problems and policymaking dilemmas. Inspired by Susan Rose-Ackerman’s fifty-year exploration of public policymaking, public law, and corruption, the collection will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy makers working in the areas of Public Law, Anticorruption, and Political-Economy.

Table of Contents:
1. Forward and Overview PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 2. Improving Public Sector Performance in Developing Countries: Practice Meets Scholarship 3. The Strength of Weak Effects 4. Finance, State-Owned Enterprise, and Development: A Comparative Study of Pawnshops in Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan 5. Developing Countries’ Utilization of GSP: Labor Standards, the Margin of Preference, and the Demand for Zero Tariffs 6. The Mandate Trilemma: Central Banking in an Era of Credit Crises CORRUPTION, STATE CAPTURE, AND POLICYMAKING 7. Anticorruption Reform in Structurally Corrupt Environments: The Argentine Trap 8. Good News? Latin American Corruption Scandals and the COVID-19 Pandemic 9. Politicization of International Anticorruption Law 10. Scope and Precision in the Laws against Corporate Bribery 11. Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture: The Corruption-FDI nexus in the Global Defense Industry 12. State Capture Matters: Considerations and Empirics towards a Worldwide Measure 13. Promoting Political Equality in Healthcare

About the Author :
Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Yale University. She has published widely on comparative administrative law and public policy and on the political economy of corruption. Her book, Corruption and Government (CUP, 1999, 2d edition with Bonnie Palifka, 2016), is a standard political-economic reference on the topic.