Corruption and Development The Anti-Corruption Campaigns

by Bracking, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780230525504
• ISBN10: 0230525504
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a multidisciplinary interrogation of the global anti-corruption campaigns of the last ten years, arguing that while some positive change is observable, the period is also replete with perverse consequences and unintended outcomes. Contributors to the volume unravel the normative assumptions, power relationships and problems of intervention within anti-corruption campaigns in development theory and practice; evaluate and deconstruct donor policy in the area of anti-corruption; and look at new institutional initiatives to build transparency and accountability in government.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Editor's Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Notes on the Contributors	p. xv
List of Abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Political Development and Corruption: Why 'Right Here, Right Now!'?	p. 3
The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption	p. 28
Economic Models of Corruption	p. 46
Corruption, Political Development and Anti-Corruption Campaigns	p. 75
Tickling Donors and Tackling Opponents: the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Malawi	p. 77
Corruption and Reform in Nigeria	p. 103
Challenges to the Philippine Culture of Corruption	p. 121
Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policies in Post-Communist Countries	p. 138
Political Corruption in Georgia	p. 155
Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Institution Building Interventions in Jamaica	p. 167
Governance, Neoliberalism and Corruption in Nicaragua	p. 182
Development Policy and Anti-Corruption Initiatives	p. 203
Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana: Does Gender Matter?	p. 205
Upgrading Democracy in Mozambique: the Question of Party and Election Finance	p. 221
Accountability in Development Finance Projects: Between the Market and a Soft Place	p. 236
Why Anti-Corruption Initiatives Fail: Technology Transfer and Contextual Collision	p. 258
Strengthening Checks and Balances in Financial Governance: the Evolving Role of Multilateral Banks in Latin America	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 293
Conclusion	p. 295
Index	p. 304
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