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Book Governments  NGOs and Anti Corruption

Download or read book Governments NGOs and Anti Corruption written by Luís de Sousa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity. Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of country studies including Taiwan and South Korea, South East Europe, Fiji, Russia and the Baltic States. Some of the questions, used to examine the development of new anti-corruption actors, include: In what context were these born? How do they operate in pursuing their mission and mandate? How successful have they been in relation to expected results? To what extent are governmental and non governmental actors aware of each other and how far do they cooperate towards the common goal of fighting corruption? What explains the shift in emphasis after the end of the cold war, from national to international action? Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption will be of interest to students and scholars of corruption, public policy, political science, developmental studies and law. Luís de Sousa is an Associate Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Portugal and Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy. Barry Hindess is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Australia. Peter Larmour is a Reader in Public Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Australia.

Book Governments  NGOs and Anti corruption  Vices and Virtues

Download or read book Governments NGOs and Anti corruption Vices and Virtues written by Luís de Sousa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government Anti Corruption Strategies

Download or read book Government Anti Corruption Strategies written by Yahong Zhang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a political and social disease, public corruption costs governments and businesses around the world trillions of dollars every year.Government Anti-Corruption Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Perspective provides you with a better understanding of public corruption and governments anti-corruption practices. It outlines a general framework of anti-c

Book Anti corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society s Involvement

Download or read book Anti corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society s Involvement written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an assessment of the legal and institutional environment in which civil society operates, together with recommendations for reform designed to enable civil society organisations and others to play a role in the fight against corruption.

Book The Politics of Anti Corruption Agencies in Latin America

Download or read book The Politics of Anti Corruption Agencies in Latin America written by Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history, development, and current state of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America. In recent decades, specialized anti-corruption agencies have sprung up as countries seek to respond to corruption and to counter administrative and political challenges. However, the characteristics, resources, power, and performance of these agencies reflect the political and economic environment in which they operate. This book draws on a range of case studies from across Latin America, considering both national anti-corruption bodies and agencies created and administered by, or in close coordination with, international organizations. Together, these stories demonstrate the importance of the political will of reformers, the private interests of key actors, the organizational space of other agencies, the position of advocacy groups, and the level of support from the public at large. This book will be a key resource for researchers across political science, corruption studies, development, and Latin American Studies. It will also be a valuable guide for policy makers and professionals in NGOs and international organizations working on anti-corruption advocacy and policy advice.

Book Fighting Corruption  Promoting Good Governance

Download or read book Fighting Corruption Promoting Good Governance written by and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents a framework for Commonwealth Principles on Promoting Good Governance and Combating Corruption. It was endorsed by Heads of Government at their Summit in Durban in 1999 as the basis for pursuing concerted strategies based on "zero tolerance" for all types of corruption at national and global levels. This publication includes the full report of the Expert Group. It examines the nature of corruption and its different dimensions as well as appropriate responses to the problems it poses. The book proposes actions at national and international levels which the Group sees as being necessary if countries are to successfully combat corruption and promote good governance.

Book Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia written by Ting Gong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to ‘white elephant’ projects that do little more than line the pockets of developers and their political partners. The Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia addresses the theories, issues and trends in corruption and anticorruption reform that have emerged from this diverse experience. The book is divided into four major parts: corruption and the state; corruption and economic development; corruption and society; and controlling corruption: strategies, successes and failures. Chapters compare and contrast corruption in different social and institutional contexts, examine both successful and unsuccessful attempts to control it, and consider what lessons can be drawn from these Asian experiences. This academically rigorous and insightful book will be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly those of Asian studies, politics and sociology.

Book Anti Corruption Strategies in Fragile States

Download or read book Anti Corruption Strategies in Fragile States written by Jesper Johnsøn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid agencies increasingly consider anti-corruption activities important for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. In the first major comparative study of work by the World Bank, the European Commission and the UNDP to help governments in fragile states counter corruption, Jesper Johnsøn finds significant variance in strategic direction and common failures in implementation.

Book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Knowledge  Commitment  Action against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific

Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Knowledge Commitment Action against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under which it proliferates. They know first hand that corruption jeopardizes security and economic growth, perpetuates poverty, and exacerbates social inequities. The knowledge has prompted the governments of more than half the world's population ...

Book NGOs Fighting Corruption

Download or read book NGOs Fighting Corruption written by Indira M. Carr and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the last decade of the twentieth century corruption has caught the attention of international community which has resulted in the adoption and wide acceptance regional and international anti-corruption treaties. Many of these treaties expect non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to play an important role in combating corruption. As yet, there is no empirical study, to our knowledge, on the strategies adopted by the various NGOs in respect of the anti-corruption drive or the nature of their interaction with other stakeholders such as the public, businesses and the state and their contribution to policy-making and the drafting of codes of conduct. In order to address this gap the authors used a postal questionnaire to provide, as part of a larger project on corruption in international business, an insight into the ways in which NGOs operate, both with respect to their strategies and stakeholder engagement and their views on the various anti-corruption regulatory approaches. This article, the main aim of which is to provide the findings of the survey, consists of three sections. Section I briefly discusses the conceptual differences between civil society and NGOs, the different forms of NGOs and the roles envisaged for them in relation to anti-corruption by the various anti-corruption toolkits in order to provide a backdrop for the survey. Section II provides the survey results and Section III concludes with a discussion and suggestions for future research.

Book OECD Public Integrity Handbook

Download or read book OECD Public Integrity Handbook written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them.

Book Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia The Istanbul Anti Corruption Action Plan Progress and Challenges

Download or read book Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia The Istanbul Anti Corruption Action Plan Progress and Challenges written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses a broad range of anti-corruption measures recently implemented in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and identifies where interim progress has been achieved, and where further or reinforced action is needed.

Book Anti corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific

Download or read book Anti corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific written by Asian Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With corruption becoming a focus of public attention in Asian and Pacific societies, 23 governments, including Australia, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, have joined forces to endorse an anti-corruption action plan. Providing experts and policy makers with a tool for analyzing the efficiency and effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms, this report allows the public to measure the progress achieved. A list of the objectives and priorities for reform is included, as are discussions of the development of effective transparent systems for public service, the strengthening of antibribery initiatives, and the promotion of integrity in business operations.

Book Negotiating Corruption

Download or read book Negotiating Corruption written by Laura Routley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'. NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform governance by bringing about changes in culture and instituting bureaucratic norms. They have, therefore, been seen as part of the apparatus of a global liberal governmentality. This book complicates this portrayal and highlights the ambiguous role of liberal governmentality through an exploration of the 'grey practices' of the NGOs studied. These practices are 'grey' as they do not fit the pattern of virtuous NGOs holding the state to account described in development policy, yet at the same time they ensure that the state produces the outcomes that a fully-functioning state ought to. This enacting of oppositional and antagonistic elements is further unpacked in conversation with Homi Bhabha's concepts of negotiation and hybridity. Negotiating Corruption draws attention to both the limitations of current explanations of corruption in Africa and the problematic way in which they are framed. The book's detailed engagement with understandings of corruption within policy and academic debates will make it a useful resource for undergraduate teaching. It will also be of keen interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who engage with the issues of corruption, NGOs, civil society, African politics, governmentality, and hybridity.

Book Waging War on Corruption

Download or read book Waging War on Corruption written by Frank Vogl and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest governments. In Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power, Frank Vogl, one of the leaders of the worldwide anticorruption movement, shares a history filled with stories of heroes and victims of corruption. He chronicles the successful campaigns by enormously courageous civil society activists, journalists, and public prosecutors and explains the crucial challenges that now must be confronted. At stake is nothing less than our global security, the reduction of poverty, the stability of our economic and financial systems, and the cause of freedom and democracy. Waging War on Corruptionwill be of interest to readers of politics and government, business, human rights, and law. Author Frank Vogl's website here.

Book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Curbing Corruption in Tsunami Relief Operations

Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Curbing Corruption in Tsunami Relief Operations written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean tsunami that hit South and Southeast Asia in December 2004 was one of the worst natural calamities of recent times, the scale of the devastation to coastal communities across the region almost incomprehensible. As befits a disaster ...

Book The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption

Download or read book The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption written by Rick Stapenhurst and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most countries, parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee government and to hold government to account; often, audit institutions, ombuds and anti-corruption agencies report to parliament, as a means of ensuring both their independence from government and reinforcing parliament's position at the apex of accountability institutions. At the same time, parliaments can also play a key role in promoting accountability, through constituency outreach, public hearings, and parliamentary commissions. This title will be of interest to parliamentarians and parliamentary staff, development practitioners, students of development and those interested in curbing corruption and improving governance in developing and developed countries alike.