Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: The New Integrity Warriors (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041559961X ISBN 13: 9780415599610

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.

Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of country studies including Taiwan and South Korea, South East Europe, Fiji, Russia and the Baltic States. Some of the questions, used to examine the development of new anti-corruption actors, include:

• In what context were these born?
• How do they operate in pursuing their mission and mandate?
• How successful have they been in relation to expected results?
• To what extent are governmental and non governmental actors aware of each other and how far do they cooperate towards the common goal of fighting corruption?
• What explains the shift in emphasis after the end of the cold war, from national to international action?

Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption will be of interest to students and scholars of corruption, public policy, political science, developmental studies and law.

Luís de Sousa is an Associate Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Portugal and Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy.

Barry Hindess is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Australia.

Peter Larmour is a Reader in Public Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Australia.

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About the Author

Luís de Sousa is research associate at CIES-ISCTE, Portugal, and currently Gulbenkian Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Barry Hindess is Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Australia.

Peter Larmour is a Reader in Public Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041559961X
• ISBN 13: 9780415599610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: De Sousa Luís, Hindess Barry, Larmour Peter