Download or read book Relentless Fight Against Corruption written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relentless Fight Against Corruption written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relentless Pursuit written by Bradley J. Edwards and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims for more than a decade. In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of having been sexually coerced at the age of fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein. Edwards, who had never heard of Epstein, had no idea that this moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten years, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to justice, and came close to losing everything in the process. Edwards tracked down and represented more than twenty of Epstein’s victims, shined a light on his shadowy network of accomplices, and uncovered the scope of his sexually exploitative organization, which reached into the highest levels of American society. Edwards gives his riveting, blow-by-blow account of battling Epstein on behalf of his clients, and provides stunning details never shared before. He explains how he followed Epstein’s criminal enterprise from Florida, to New York, to Europe, to a Caribbean island, and, in the process, became the one person Epstein most feared could take him down. Epstein and his cadre of high-priced lawyers were able to manipulate the FBI and the Justice Department, but despite making threats and attempting schemes straight out of a spy movie, Epstein couldn’t stop Edwards, his small team of committed lawyers, and, most of all, the victims, who were dead-set on seeing their abuser finally put behind bars.
Download or read book Curbing Corruption written by Bertram I. Spector and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many anti-corruption efforts have had only a minimal effect on curbing the problem of corruption. This book explains why that is, and shows readers what works in the real world in the fight against corruption, and why. Counter-corruption initiatives often focus on the legal, institutional, and contextual factors that facilitate corrupt behavior, but these have had only nominal impacts, because most of these reforms can be circumvented by government officials, powerful citizens, and business people who are relentless in their quest for self-interest. This book argues that instead, we should target the key individual and group drivers of corrupt behavior and, through them, promote sustainable behavioral change. Drawing on over 25 years of practical experience planning, designing, and implementing anti-corruption programs in over 40 countries, as well as a wealth of insights from social psychological, ethical, and negotiation research, this book identifies innovative tools that target these core human motivators of corruption, with descriptions of pilot tests that show how they can work in practice. Anti-corruption is again becoming a priority issue, prompted by the emergence of more authoritarian regimes, and the public scrutiny of government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Straddling theory and practice, this book is the perfect guide to what works and what doesn’t, and will be valuable for policymakers, NGOs, development practitioners, and corruption studies students and researchers.
Download or read book Anticorruption in History written by Ronald Kroeze and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption. Economists, political scientists and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of rankings and indices. The long-term trends—social, political, economic, cultural—potentially undergirding the position of various countries plays a very small role. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country's image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the former German Democratic Republic.
Download or read book Putin s People written by Catherine Belton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph "[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." —Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." —Peter Frankopan, Financial Times Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it? In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory exposé of the KGB’s revanche—a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad. Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach—and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match—Putin’s People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
Download or read book Wings To Our Hopes Selected Speeches of President Droupadi Murmu written by Rashtrapati Bhavan and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of the speeches of President Droupadi Murmu delivered during the first year of her Presidency.
Download or read book The Code written by Jane Raymond and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city was cloaked in darkness, its streets illuminated only by the dim glow of streetlights. Shadows danced along the alleyways, hiding secrets and whispers of danger. In the heart of the metropolis, a new criminal organization was silently taking root-a dangerous force that would test the limits of justice and challenge the resolve of those who fought against corruption. It began with a single encrypted code-a message delivered to Detective Sarah Collins. Its origins were unknown, its purpose shrouded in mystery. But Sarah, a seasoned investigator with a deep-rooted commitment to justice, recognized the significance of the code. It was a call to arms, a warning that the battle was far from over. As Sarah delved into the intricate patterns of the code, she could sense the weight of the unseen adversary, lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike. The code hinted at an organization more elusive, more cunning than anything she had encountered before. It whispered of an imminent threat, a darkness that threatened to engulf the city and the lives of the innocent. Sarah's past battles had left scars-both visible and unseen-but they had also forged her into a relentless seeker of truth. She had faced unimaginable dangers, unraveled complex conspiracies, and exposed the darkest corners of society. The scars she carried were not just reminders of her own struggles, but also reminders of the lives she had touched and the victories she had achieved. And now, as she stood on the precipice of a new investigation, Sarah knew that her journey was not yet complete. The encrypted code before her was a testament to the resilience of evil, an echo of the ongoing battle for justice. The fight against crime and corruption had become ingrained in her very being-a flame that burned bright, driving her forward, even in the face of the unknown.
Download or read book Dragnet Nation written by Julia Angwin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative journalist offers a revealing look at how the government, private companies, and criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data, and discusses results from a number of experiments she conducted to try and protect herself.
Download or read book On Corruption in America written by Sarah Chayes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. “If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.
Download or read book Exposed written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of witnessing corruption in various sectors? Do you want to understand how it has shaped our history and continues to affect our societies? Exposed: The Dark Side of Corruption delivers a comprehensive look into the different forms and dimensions of corruption. With examples from historical instances to modern-day scandals, this book explores how corruption has influenced our world and the measures taken to combat it. Are you aware of the extent to which corruption has shaped our societies? Do you want to understand the different facets of corruption? Are you interested in learning about the efforts to fight corruption? Discover inside: 1. Uncover the historical impact of corruption. 2. Discover financial scandals and frauds. 3. Understand the political arena's corrupt practices. 4. Examine corruption in religious institutions. 5. Explore instances of police corruption and misconduct. 6. Learn about military corruption. 7. Discover the dark side of media corruption. 8. Understand corruption in healthcare, education, sports, business, and technology. If you want to gain a deeper understanding of corruption and its impact on society, buy this book today! Exposed: The Dark Side of Corruption presents real-life examples, historical context, and measures to combat corruption. This book is your guide to understanding the complexities of corruption and its influence on our world. Don't miss out - buy now!
Download or read book Contemporary Africa s Growth and Development written by Agyemang Attah-Poku and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. After discussing and weighing the schools of thought that have attempted to explain the paradox of Africa’s reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources, this volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painful experience. This book consistently states that the average Africans, forming the overwhelming majority of the African population, are the least, if at all, to be blamed for the paradox; but rather the African leadership and its external cronies are to be fully blamed. Contemporary Africa’s Growth and Development seeks a solution to the African growth and development puzzle in proper allocation and oversight of resources, vision, perseverance, courage, corruption-free and good governance, as well as concrete, provable, solid, and genuine unity.
Download or read book Refeudalization and the Crisis of Civilization written by Olaf Kaltmeier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century. In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in the region, highlighting the concentration of wealth within the upper 1% of society in Latin America. Comparing the current economic situation with the ancient regime, the discussion centers around the new phenomena like billionaires as president, increased luxury consumption, an emerging culture of distinction, and the intensification of land and spatial segregation. In Part 2, Lander urgently assesses the current state and political legacy of the "Pink Tide" governments in his essay "Crisis of Civilization." Reviewing the past two decades of the new millennium, Lander critiques the failure of these governments to provide alternatives to extractivism and economic dependencies. Finally, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt connects the arguments through interviews where both authors sum their efforts to open the issues to future dialogue. Refeudalization in Latin America provides an accessible and thought-provoking political diagnosis from the Global South which departs from the oft idiosyncratic and cyclical debates of the Global North to offer new vocabulary for social change. It will interest scholars and students of global studies, sociology, and political science.
Download or read book School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa written by Tsediso Michael Makoelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa explores the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa, analyzing the state of school leadership in South African schools from the time of the new democratic education dispensation in 1994 to the present day. The book maps out what the future of education in South Africa could look like and explores the most conducive educational environments for change in South African schools. It adopts a critical approach to analyzing leadership and management in the context of school governance, school effectiveness, teacher development, multiculturalism and equity in education. Contributions explore the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa through examining different perspectives, achievements and challenges, and also consider issues around access to technology, language policy and the curriculum along with new literature on selected aspects of leadership. This book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars, and students in the fields of educational leadership, sociology of education, and teacher education.
Download or read book Boon of Yoga written by Ummed Singh and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga ( Sanskriti: yoga ) is a spiritual process in which the work of bringing the body, mind, and soul together (yoga) takes place. This word-process and perception - is related to the meditation process in Hindu text, Jain text, and Buddist text. The word Yoga has spread from India to Buddhist texts in China, Japan, Tibet, South East Asia, and Shri Lanka as well and people are familiar with it at all times in the civilized world. For the first time since fame, on 11 December 2014, the United Nations general assembly has recognized 21 June each year as world Yoga day. The definition should be such that it is free from imprecision and exaggeration faults, it can be able to describe the meaning of the word for yoga which is suitable for every topic and is not suitable for anything other than yoga. The Bhagwad Gita is considered a prestigious book. The word yoga has been used many times in it, sometimes alone and sometimes in particular, such as Buddhayoga, Sanyasayoga, Karmayoga. The names Bhakti Yoga and Hath yoga also become prevalent during the Vedas period. Patanjali comes to see the word Kriya Yoga in Yogadarshan. Words like Pashupati Yoga and Maheshwar Yoga also have references. The meanings of the word Yoga in all these places are different from each other. In the Gita, Shri krishna has said at a place ' Yoga: Karmasu Kaushalam 4 ' (Efficiency in deeds is Yoga.) This sentence is not the definition of Yoga. Some scholars believe that the joining of the soul and the divine is called yoga. There is a big objection in accepting that even Buddhism, which does not accept God's authority, behaves with the word Yoga and supports Yoga. The same can be said for communities who consider the authority of God to be imperfect. Patanjali 's YogasutraIn, the definition that has been given is 'Yogashtantvatrishnirodha', the name of the prevention of the mental practices is Yoga. This sentence can have two meanings: Yoga is the state of detention of the mind, or the remedy to bring this state is Yoga. This eBook is a guide and serves as a fist guide. In addition, please get expert advise. or you can write to [email protected] for any query, we will happy to help you. Thank you,
Download or read book The Constitution of Freedom written by András Sajó and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations who have lived in stable democracies with the promise that their enviable world will become the global 'normal' find government rule without constitutionalism difficult to conceive. It is difficult, but never too late, to see one's own constitutional system as something that is fragile, or up for grabs and in need of constant attention and care. In this book, Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz explore how constitutionalism protects us and how it might be undone by its own means. Sajo and Uitz's intellectual history of the constitutional ideal is rich in contextual detail and informed by case studies that give an overview of both the theory and practice of constitutionalism worldwide. Classic constitutions are contrasted with twentieth-century and contemporary endeavours, and experimentations in checks and balances. Their endeavour is neither apologetic (and certainly not celebratory), nor purely defensive: this book demonstrates why constitutionalism should continue to matter. Between the rise of populist, anti-constitutional sentiment and the normalization of the apparatus of counter-terrorism, it is imperative that the political communities who seek to sustain democracy as freedom understand the importance of constitutionalism. This book is essential reading for students of law and general readers without prior knowledge of the field, as well as those in politics who believe they know how government works. It shows what is at stake in the debate on constitutionalism.
Download or read book Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those working to root out corruption and disrupt vested interests. Drawing on her experience as Nigeria's finance minister and that of her team, she describes dangers, pitfalls, and successes in fighting corruption. She provides practical lessons learned and tells how anti-corruption advocates need to equip themselves. Okonjo-Iweala details the numerous ways in which corruption can divert resources away from development, rewarding the unscrupulous and depriving poor people of services. Okonjo-Iweala discovered just how dangerous fighting corruption could be when her 83-year-old mother was kidnapped in 2012 by forces who objected to some of the government's efforts at reforms led by Okonjo-Iweala—in particular a crackdown on fraudulent claims for oil subsidy payments, a huge drain on the country's finances. The kidnappers' first demand was that Okonjo-Iweala resign from her position on live television and leave the country. Okonjo-Iweala did not resign, her mother escaped, and the program of economic reforms continued. “Telling my story is risky,” Okonjo-Iweala writes. “But not telling it is also dangerous.” Her book ultimately leaves us with hope, showing that victories are possible in the fight against corruption.
