"This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide phenomenon. Corruption creates economic ine…
"This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide phenomenon. Corruption creates economic ine…
Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor…
Analyses anti-corruption policy within EU Member States and the evolution of anti-corruption policy during the accession process.
Covering countries as diverse as Brazil and Guatemala, Thailand, Russia and occupied Iraq, this book examines the way democratization may lead to changes in crime. Case studies examine violent and sexual crime and their links to political change. The book also explores the way d…
Measuring corruption
by Sampford, C. J. G., (Charles J. G.)
fromLaw, ethics and governance
Measuring corruption
by Sampford, C. J. G., (Charles J. G.)
fromLaw, ethics and governance
In this book, Transparency International's world-renowned "corruption perception index" and "bribery perception index" 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 surv…
"Geoff Simons profiles the appalling human-rights record of modern Indonesia, against a history of the country from colonial times to the present. He highlights the gross acts of repression (torture, killings, etc.) and the unjust legal system and corrupt nepotism that have prot…