Public Sector Corruption

by Michael Johnston

• ISBN13: 9781849206044
• ISBN10: 184920604X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Corruption always grabs the headlines and the processes of political contention that created the modern state have done much to shape our notions of corruption and good government; yet very old ideas show surprising vitality as we examine the ways citizens understand and react to corruption issues. Corruption issues appeared as a major international policy concern around 1990, after a generation during which they received relatively little emphasis, and since that time the research literature has had unprecedented growth in quantity and quality.This major reference collection collates the best of the research for scholars, policymakers, students, reformers, journalists, and interested citizens, showing us where we have been and where we need to go as the work continues. Further, the collection develops a much-needed comprehensive record of what we have learned from political scientists, economists, and historical and cultural analysts; while all borrow selectively and creatively from each other, they are still engaged in largely separate conversations. Finally, this collection focuses on the whole issue of reform. The past generation's research has both led to new ideas about how to attack corruption, measure its seriousness, and assess the effects of corruption control efforts. The collection is a particularly important toolkit to bring the best of our knowledge to bear upon efforts at control-in effect, to integrate theory and practice-for as in many other policy areas it is entirely possible to do the wrong things for the right reasons.

Table of Contents

Concepts

Introduction

Corruption: The Emergence of an Idea

Corruption

The Corruption of a State

What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy?

The Appearance of Official Impropriety and the Concept of Political Crime

The Definitions Debate

Typology of Definitions of Corruption

Defining Political Corruption

Ethics in Congress: From individual to institutional corruption

Diverse Legal and Moral Traditions

a Moral Economy of Corruption in Africa?

Corruption or Social Capital? Tact and the Performance of Guanxi in Market Socialist China

I Don't Bribe, I Just Pull Strings, Perspectives on European Politics and Society

Corruption as 'Boundary Politics': The state, democratisation, and mozambique's unstable liberalisation

Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from diplomatic parking tickets

Mapping the Concept in Practice: Variations in Kind

Black-Gray-White Typology, Political Corruption: Concepts and contexts

Looters, Rent-Scrapers, and Dividend-Collectors: Corruption and growth in Zaire, South Korea and the Philippines

Patterns of Corruption and Development in East Asia

Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, power, and democracy

cases

Varieties of Corrupt Practices

Oligarchs and Cronies in the Philippine State: The Politics of patrimonial plunder

Dangerous Collusion: Corruption as a collective venture in contemporary China

Competitive Corruption: Factional conflict and political malfeasance in postwar Italian Christian democracy

Middlemen in Third-World Corruption: Implications of an Indian Case

Cultural and Historical Variations

Political Corruption: Historical conflict and the rise of standards

Protection against a Capricious State: French investment and Spanish railroads, 1845-1875

Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld

Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude payments to medical doctors in Hungary

Comparing Societies

Reform, State, and Corruption: Is corruption less destructive in China than in Russia?

Corruption in a Paternalistic Democracy: Lessons from Italy for Latin America

Does Democracy Check Corruption? Insights from China and India

Shaping Corrupt Dealings

Controlling Corruption

Why Are Some Officials More Corrupt than Others?

The Market for Public Office: Why India's state is not better at development

The Best System Money Can Buy

Political Parties as Public Utilities

Causes and Consequences

Causes of Corruption

The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society

The Economics of Corruption

Corruption

The Causes of Corruption: a cross-national study

Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Politics: Effects on Corruption

Political Institutions and Corruption: The role of unitarism and parliamentarism

Democratic Institutions and Corruption: Incentives and constraints in politics

Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation

Corruption: Effects on Politics

Social Capital, Beliefs in Government, and Political Corruption

The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy: a comparative study of four Latin American countries

Effects on Society

India's Middlemen: Connecting by corrupting?

Political Corruption and Social Trust: An experimental approach

Corruption, Inequality, and Trust

a Comparative Study of Inequality and Corruption

CURES?

Responses to Corruption

Combating Corruption in the Asia-Pacific Countries: What do we know and what needs to be done?

Corruption by Design: Building clean government in mainland China and Hong Kong

Citizen, Co-Production and Corruption Control

Corruption and Bilateral Aid: a dyadic approach

Measuring Corruption, Tracking Reforms

Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and functions of (macro) corruption indices

Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data

Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Win, Lose, or Draw? China's War on Corruption

Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Agencies

Anti-Corruption Agencies: Rhetoric versus Reality

The Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Programs: Preliminary Evidence from the Post-Communist Transition Countries

Anti-Corruption: Movement? Business? Fetish?

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity

Integrity Warriors: Global morality and the anti-corruption movement in the Balkans

The Hollowness of Anti-corruption Discourse

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