Introduction; 1. What is corruption and why does it matter?; Part I. Corruption as an Economic Problem: 2. Bureaucratic corruption; 3. Corruption in procurement and privatization; 4. Reducing incentives and increasing costs; 5. Civil service reform and bureaucratic reorganization; 6. Using the criminal law to deter bribery and extortion; Part II. Corruption as a Cultural Problem: 7. Culture and corruption; Part III. Corruption as a Political Problem: 8. Politics, corruption, and clientelism; 9. Organized crime, corruption, and money laundering; 10. Corruption in post-conflict state building; 11. Democracy: corruption, connections, and money in politics; 12. Accountability beyond the ballot box; Part IV. Reform Agendas - Domestic Political Will and International Influence: 13. Domestic conditions for reform; 14. The role of the international community; 15. The role of international cooperation: states, firms, banks, and organized crime; Part V. Conclusions: 16. Conclusions.
This new edition of a 1999 classic shows how institutionalized corruption can be fought through sophisticated political-economic reform.
Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) at Yale University, Connecticut. She is one of the world's leading scholars of the political economy of corruption and one of the first economists to write on the subject. She is the author or editor of seventeen books and numerous articles. The first edition of her book Corruption and Government has been translated into seventeen languages. In addition to her work on corruption, she writes about public law and public policy from a comparative law and political economy perspective. Her most recent book is Due Process of Lawmaking (with Stefanie Egidy and James Fowkes). She has been a visiting researcher at the World Bank and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Bonnie Palifka is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She has taught a course on corruption based on the first edition of this book since 2004 at ITESM and since 2011 at Yale University. Dr Palifka has spoken on corruption at conferences in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, St Kitts, and France. Her most recent publication is 'A Review of Drivers of Corruption: A Brief Review, by Tina Søreide' in the journal Crime, Law and Social Change.
'Susan Rose-Ackerman has been a powerful ally of Transparency
International (TI), from its very beginnings more than twenty years
ago. Through her writing, teaching, and speaking she accompanied
our battle against corruption with her thoughtful, sometimes
critical, economist perspective of our activism. The first edition
of this book came out just in time, to help strengthen the
conceptual framework of fighting corruption in various
institutions, and the anti-corruption community will be grateful to
Susan and her coauthor, Bonnie J. Palifka, for producing the new
edition of this seminal work. The strong conceptual economic
framework provided in this book will be needed for practitioners,
teachers, scholars, and the media as we continue our battle against
the scourge of corruption.' Peter Eigen, Founder and Chairman of
the Advisory Council, Transparency International
'A timely update to a classic, including many new insights from the
burgeoning field of corruption research. The new and improved
edition of Corruption and Government is essential reading to anyone
interested in the problem of corruption, and what to do about it.'
Raymond Fisman, Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics,
Boston University
'When first published in 1999, Corruption and Government was a
pioneering achievement that instantly became a landmark book,
defining many of the central themes for research in this area. This
new edition is nothing but a real 'tour de force'. Rose-Ackerman's
powerful political-economic approach is expanded into several new
areas such as organized crime and corruption in post-conflict
societies. A wealth of recent empirical studies that are presented
for illuminating the analysis and the discussion of possible reform
agendas also makes this a highly relevant book for the expanding
international anti-corruption regime.' Bo Rothstein, Blavatnik
School of Government and Nuffield College, University of Oxford
'Its engaging and confident presentation of the fundamentals of
corruption made this book a standard reference in any informed
discussion about the problem. This second version keeps focus on
what institutional structures produce incentives for administrative
and political corruption, while the reader also learns how
corruption research and law enforcement have expanded (and
stagnated) over the last fifteen years. The book is a must-read for
anyone seriously interested to learn what it takes to fight
corruption.' Tina Søreide, Norwegian School of Economics
'This revised and expanded edition is a further great contribution
to the fight against corruption in all its forms. While the authors
observe on the substantial progress that has been made, they
acknowledge the difficulties in achieving a comprehensive global
agreement, when national interests and values differ. Let us all
hope that legislators and leaders throughout the world will
recognize the common benefits of adopting the actions here
recommended.' James D. Wolfensohn, former President, World Bank
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