{"product_id":"shifting-obsessions-three-essays-on-the-politics-of-anticorruption-9789639241947","title":"Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when \"combating corruption\" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shifting Obsessions should stimulate a more healthy, sorely needed debate on corruption, anti-corruption policy, and the politics of anti-corruption. It could contribute to the encouragement of anti-corruption policies divorced from rhetoric and linked more closely to local problems. For these two reasons alone, it is one of the most important contributions to the anti-corruption debate in recent years.\" - Transitions Online\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures  Foreword Aryeh Neier  Preface  Acknowledgements  When \"Should\" Does not Imply \"Can.\" The Making of Washington Consensus on Corruption  Corruption, Anticorruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law  The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection with Georgy Ganev","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047195115863,"sku":"9789639241947","price":27.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789639241947.jpg?v=1750970623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shifting-obsessions-three-essays-on-the-politics-of-anticorruption-9789639241947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}