The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity – How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Studies in Crime and Justice) - Hardcover

Anechiarico, Frank

 
9780226020518: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity – How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Studies in Crime and Justice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226020517 ISBN 13: 9780226020518
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1997

Synopsis

Anticorruption reforms provide political cover for public officials, but do they really work? This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern. Over the last century, the authors argue, society has become enmeshed in alternating cycles of corruption and reform. Governments attribute the absence of scandal to existing regulations, and see their reoccurrence as proof of the need of additional laws. Using the anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, the authors seeks to deomonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing absolute integrity. They assert that by constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control - no less than corruption itself - has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.

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About the Author

Frank Anechiarico is the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton College.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226020517
ISBN 13 
9780226020518
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
292

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