Corruption in politics, government and society Books
De Gruyter Corruption at the Grassroots-level – Between
Book SynopsisA Very Short History of Corruption Research and a List of What We Should Aim ForTable of ContentsGuest Editorial: Lambsdorff, Johann Graf, Günther G. Schulze What Can We Know About Corruption? A Very Short History of Corruption Research and a List of What We Should Aim For Original Papers: De Rosa, Donato, Nishaal Gooroochurn, Holger Görg: Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence Ivlevs, Artjoms, Timothy Hinks: Bribing Behaviour and Sample Selection: Evidence from Post-Socialist Countries and Western Europe Liu, Qijun, Yaping Peng: Determinants of Willingness to Bribe: Micro Evidence from the Educational Sector in China Gouda, Moamen, Sang-Min Park: Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption Li, Sha, Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank, Haiying Qin: Group Decision Making in a Corruption Experiment: China and Germany Compared Khachatryan, Elina, Sebastian Kube, Björn Vollan: Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence
£59.24
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The February 2015 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
Book SynopsisThe book provides a detailed description of the Russian crime of the twenty-first century as well as a thorough examination of the eighty sessions of the nine-month-long trial (during 2016-2017) of Boris Nemtsovs alleged killers. It directs attention to the chief obstacle in determining what precisely happened shortly before midnight on February 27, 2015, on a bridge located a mere stones throw away from the Kremlin, in an area under the active surveillance of the Russian Federal Protective Service. The glaring absence of closed circuit videos from this most heavily guarded site in Russia is underscored. Given the absence of such key evidence, those seeking to investigate the murder have been akin to blind people stumbling about in obscurity. The attempts to penetrate this man-made fog undertaken during the course of the trial by the Nemtsov family attorneys, Vadim Prokhorov and Olga Mikhailova, as well as by numerous tenacious analysts of the crime, such as former deputy Russian energy minister Vladimir Milov, former Russian presidential economics advisor Andrei Illarionov, and leading mathematician Andrei Piontkovskii, are covered in full. The uneven case mounted by the prosecution and the scrappy defense effort of the attorneys for the alleged killers, many of them ethnic Chechens, are highlighted, as is the non-unanimous verdict which was reached by the twelve jurors. The findings of this study are in agreement with those of a number of commentators who contend that the actual organizers of the crime remain at large as does the assassinations shadowy mastermind.
£34.20
Ibidem Press The House Always Wins
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£36.00
V&R unipress GmbH Korruption im Kaiserreich: Debatten und Skandale
Book SynopsisCorruption does not exist in the German Empire? Anna Rothfuss questions this common declaration by contemporaries and successfully shows that despite such self-affirmations, German society between 1871 and 1914 talked not only frequently but continuously about corruption. Not least, powerful names such as Bismarck and Krupp were topics of corruption debates and scandals. As an essential component of political communication, all political protagonists instrumentalised communication about corruption, which allowed them to partly expand their scope of action beyond constitutional restrictions. In addition, Rothfuss research demonstrates that in parallel the normative judgement of corrupt actions unified over time.
£63.38
Verlag Barbara Budrich The Anticorruption Frontline: The Anticorruption
Book SynopsisFrom Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters’ list of grievances – from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. Their countries have benefited to varying degrees from globalization, but their regimes have all failed to evolve politically to meet their expectations. Corruption has become the main explanation for failures in government performance, for networks of patrons and clients subverting fair competition, and for billions of Euro in disappearing public funds, national or foreign assistance income. The economic crisis exposed the hypocrisy of rich countrieswhich control corruption at home but use it to advance their economic interests abroad. The rise in the last two decades of an international anti-corruption regime only raised awareness but failed so far to diminish corruption. There is increasing demand for good governance resulting in quality education and health systems, and denunciation of sheer bread and circus populism. Briefly put, governments unable to control corruption cannot get away with organizing football World Cups anymore. Volume 2 of the Anticorruption Report tackles these issues across key cases and developments.Trade ReviewKorruption sei der häufigste Anlass für Proteste - weltweit: Von der Occupy?Bewegung bis zum Arabischen Frühling, immer sei es ein Versagen der politischen Elite, das junge Menschen auf die Straße treibe. Für dieses Versagen seien häufig Vetternwirtschaft, Bestechung und die Veruntreuung öffentlicher Gelder die Ursachen. So lauten einige der Ergebnisse des EU?Forschungsprogramms Anticorrp (Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption). Bei diesem Sammelband handelt es sich um die Fortsetzung des ersten Antikorruptionberichts. In Fallstudien aus der Ukraine, Bulgarien, Ruanda und Katar werden die Entwicklung der Korruption und ihre Bekämpfung nachgezeichnet. Pw-portal.de, 12.02.2015Table of ContentsFrom the Contents of vol. 2: What do we measure? How we measure When measurements are wrong: Qatar, Rwanda, Botswana In the news: Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey
£16.16
Verlag Barbara Budrich Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU
Book SynopsisThis last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and avariety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds andnorms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia,Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of developmentfunds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structuraland development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governanceacross borders, the different paths that each country has experiencedand suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.
£16.16
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Manifiesto Mexicano: Cómo perdimos el rumbo y
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£15.26
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El cártel de Sinaloa (Edición especial) / The Sinaloa Cartel. A History of the Political... (Special Edition)
£15.26
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El gran corruptor / The Great Corruptor
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£15.16
Wisdom Village Publications Division Uprising 2011: Indians Against Corruption
Book Synopsis"Uprising 2011-Indians Against Corruption" is a book chronicling India's anti-corruption movement 2010-2012, likened to Arab Spring. Authors Kiran Bedi and Pavan Choudary provide insights on the movement and their backgrounds in police service and writing.
£10.88
Aleph Book Company WHY SCAMS ARE HERE TO STAY: Understanding
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Central European University Press Dynamics of an Authoritarian System: Hungary,
Book SynopsisThis conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. In 2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the constitution – two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds majority in 2014 and 2018. The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture. They show how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how the centralized power structure reproduces itself. With the help of a powerful empirical apparatus—among others analyses of more than 220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite — the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of politically-linked businesses. Their studies demonstrate the role of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture leads to a new social stratification.Trade Review"This is a dazzling book, researched in depth, elegantly presented and brilliantly argued. I am not aware of any other book that analyses the workings of the Orbán regime as comprehensively and as insightfully as this volume. This impressive book brings the Orbán dictatorship into full focus and should be in every serious university library." https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2205320 -- Sabrina P. Ramet * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I. METAMORPHOSIS OF A PARTY INTO A SYSTEM Paths to Political Capture and Institutionalized Corruption in Hungary, 2010–2021 System evolutions in comparative perspective Political-economic context of systemic evolution From political dominance to political capture Diffusion of political capture into autonomous national, local and grass-roots institutions Forced resource redeployment as instruments of self reproduction of the evolving system Politically selective resource distribution and those most privileged by forced resource redeployment The domestic and external factors of persistent self-reproduction during evolution Conclusions PART II. REPRODUCTION THROUGH REDISTRIBUTION Redistribution and Integration Introduction Welfare redistribution, social integration and inequalities Project-based redistribution Recombinant redistribution Conclusions Cronyism in the Orbán Regime An Empirical Analysis of Public Tenders, 2005–2020 Introduction Literature Data and Indicators The Orbán Regime and MGTS+ companies: descriptive statistics Models and estimations Conclusions References Annex Political Connectedness in Hungarian State Capitalism: The Case of the “Fidesz-Connected” Mészáros Group of Companies Introduction Methodology: data collection and processing Fidesz-connected entrepreneurs on the list of the 100 wealthiest Hungarians Regulatory and procurement advantages or favors Lőrincz Mészáros: family and business Annex Summary
£76.50
Central European University Press A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes:
Book SynopsisWhile the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region. In 120 theses they unfold a conceptual framework with (1) a typology of post-communist regimes and (2) a detailed presentation of ideal-type actors and the political, economic, and social phenomena in these regimes. The book is a more digestible companion to the 800-page The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), which was a detailed theoretical study with plenty of empirical illustrations. Each of the 120 theses contains a statement and its concise discussion supported by illustrative tables, figures, and QR-codes that connect the interested reader to the more detailed analysis in the Anatomy. In a condensed variety, this book has kept the holistic approach of the Anatomy and treats the spheres of political, market, and communal action as parts of a single, coherent whole. The endeavor to synthesize a vast range of ideas does not, however, result in a too complicated text. On the contrary, freed from the implicit presumptions of democracy theory, the new terminology yields a readily usable toolkit of unambiguous means of expression to speak about post-communism.Trade Review"Węgierscy badacze: Ustrój, który wymyślili Orban z Kaczyńskim, wymyka się definicjom. To zupełnie nowa jakość." https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,30175241,to-jakby-opisywac-slonia-przy-pomocy-jezyka-na-temat-ryb.html -- Wojciech Sadurski * Wyborcza *"In the wide-reaching academic literature on corruption and oligarchs’ influence, Magyar and Madlovics’s synthesis and typologies are exemplary, and their conceptualization rigorous." https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/hungarian-studies/article-abstract/48/2/216/287751/Why-Did-Hungarian-Politics-Become-Authoritarian-A?redirectedFrom=fulltext -- Katalin Fábián * Hungarian Studies Review *"Hiermit ein drittes Forschungsparadigma zur Analyse der Entwicklung Osteuropas nach der Transitologie (in den 1990er Jahren dominant) und einem Konzept, das er als 'Hybridologie' bezeichnet, entwickelt werde. Jenes Dritte bezeichnet er als Paradigma der 'Post-Communist Dynamics'. 'The basic hypothesis of the authors is that the post-communist political trajectory after the fall of communism is leading to ‚informal patronal‘ systems of rule, and by no means to the establishment of Western-style legal-rational liberal democracy.' Die zentrale Institution jenes dritten Paradigmas wird als 'Mafia-Staat' bezeichnet. Dieses Konzept stützt sich auf Erkenntnisse über die historische Mafia, in der traditionelle Familienbeziehungen bestimmend sind und ein Patron die zentrale Figur darstellt. 'In essence, the mafia state is the business venture of the adopted political family managed through the instruments of public authority: the privatized form of a parasite state.'“ https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/article/download/11463/11348 -- Dieter Segert * Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung *
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Scrupulous, Thorough, Fearless: The Cpib Story
Book SynopsisScrupulous, Thorough, Fearless — The CPIB Story chronicles the journey of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) from its beginnings to the present. The narrative contained within the pages of this book contextualises the role of the Bureau in Singapore's nation-building journey. The creation of the Bureau and its history and heritage are closely intertwined with the birth and history of Singapore.It starts by providing an account of how corruption had become so prevalent in pre-war Singapore. The experiences of war, characterised by extreme shortages, hunger and privation, provided further impetus for many to resort to corrupt ways to get what they needed and coveted in the post-war period. This Bureau was established to clean up the corruption of the day, an endeavour which contributed to the birth of a strong nation whose people shared a common ethos of integrity. Singapore's reputation for being corruption-free has since been one of the pillars of the nation's economic success.
£76.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Scrupulous, Thorough, Fearless: The Cpib Story
Book SynopsisScrupulous, Thorough, Fearless — The CPIB Story chronicles the journey of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) from its beginnings to the present. The narrative contained within the pages of this book contextualises the role of the Bureau in Singapore's nation-building journey. The creation of the Bureau and its history and heritage are closely intertwined with the birth and history of Singapore.It starts by providing an account of how corruption had become so prevalent in pre-war Singapore. The experiences of war, characterised by extreme shortages, hunger and privation, provided further impetus for many to resort to corrupt ways to get what they needed and coveted in the post-war period. This Bureau was established to clean up the corruption of the day, an endeavour which contributed to the birth of a strong nation whose people shared a common ethos of integrity. Singapore's reputation for being corruption-free has since been one of the pillars of the nation's economic success.
£33.25
Prh Grupo Editorial La historia secreta AMLO y el Cártel de Sinaloa
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£17.95
Diversion Publishing - Ips Gold Bar Bob
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