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9780226020518

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226020518

  • ISBN10:

    0226020517

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-12-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control--no less than corruption itself--has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration. "Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical need to reevaluate just what we have and are doing to public servants, and to the public, in the name of anti-corruption."--Citylaw "A timely and very useful addition to the new debate over corruption and reform."--Michael Johnston, American Political Science Review

Author Biography

Frank Anechiarico is the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Evolution of Corruption: From "Honest Graft" to Conflicts of Interest
The Evolution of the Anticorruption Project: From Virtue to Surveillance
Civil Service and the Anticorruption Project: Bondage to a Principle
Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosures: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity
Whistleblowers: Uncovering Wrongdoing at Any Price
Internal Government Investigation: The Panopticon in New York City
State and Federal Prosecutors: Putting Public Officials on Ice
Purging Corruption from Public Contracting: Blacklists, Debarments, and the Paralysis of Procurement
Auditing and Accounting Controls: Beyond Bean Counting
Waging War Against the Inevitable
Public Administration: From Reform to Pathology
Toward a New Discourse on Corruption Control
Notes
Bibliography
Table of Cases
Index
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