"Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Ini…
"Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Ini…
"Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Ini…
" ... [The] term [Mafia raj] ... refers to to the diffuse sphere of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia ... Through intimate stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, …
" ... [The] term [Mafia raj] ... refers to the diffuse sphere of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia ... Through intimate stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, and…
Presents a study of four police departments in which both honest police officers and citizens were victimized by police corruption. Explores the methods which were used such as surveillance and other covert techniques in order to successfully reform the departments. The cities i…
"In 2008, the worldwide financial crisis dealt a severe blow to the construction industry in Tomsk, a charming academic center in Russia dubbed the "Siberian Athens" for the numerous universities that call the city home.1 A crisis of liquidity forced banks to stop lending altoge…
Introduction -- Institutions -- Social power -- Defining corruption -- Noble cause corruption -- Bribery, nepotism, fraud and abuse of authority -- Institutional responsibility: individual and collective -- Integrity systems -- Investigations -- Integrity systems for occupations…
In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explor…
A comprehensive study of the origin, nature, and consequences of corruption - the misuse of public power for private gain - in post-communist societies. Suggesting innovative and practical institutional strategies for containing corruption, this book achieves a balance of discip…
A comprehensive study of the origin, nature, and consequences of corruption - the misuse of public power for private gain - in post-communist societies. Suggesting innovative and practical institutional strategies for containing corruption, this book achieves a balance of discip…
In 1798 more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes--William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky, home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also …
