Corruption and development : the anti-corruption campaigns / edited by Sarah Bracking ; with a foreword by Deryck R. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracking, Sarah, 1968-

Series:

Palgrave studies in development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--Developing countries--Congresses.

Political corruption.

Political corruption--Developing countries--Prevention--Congresses.

Business ethics--Developing countries--Congresses.

Business ethics.

Economic development--Developing countries--Congresses.

Economic development.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Since the 1990s anti-corruption discourse and policy has become an unquestioned morat crusade but campaigns that focus on eliminating corruption often have negative effects for good governance and political cultures across the developing world. This collection critically examines development assistance policy and practice in the field of corruption and anti-corruption across a range of country and sector-based case studies. Contemporary political reform in the South is reviewed comparatively in relation to the sometimes contradictory and militating context of political development interventions in the area of anti-corruption and good governance.

Exploring the ways that corruption is addressed across Africa Asia, Latin America and East and Central Europe the book argues that a single-minded focus on corruption within the development industry occludes more substantive political programmes, such as democratization, and can contribute to the pathologizing of public policy it examines the encoded and implicit agendas that anti-corruption campaigns serve-including the assumption of Northern supremacy - and places the debate on political corruption in historical perspective, highlighting the racialized framing of the problem. This critical examination and review of various governments' policies on corruption, in relation to the standardized package of measures encouraged through interventionism by the global development industry, also sheds light on the nature of the latter. It illuminates the contemporary political landscape in which strategic and discursive conflict and consensus is negotiated between members of domestic political communities and the institutions and representatives of the global development community.

This book includes a Foreword by Deryck Brown, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK.

Contents:

1 Political Development and Corruption: Why 'Right Here, Right Now!'? / Sarah Bracking 3

2 The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption / Kalin S. Ivanov 28

3 Economic Models of Corruption / Vincent G. Fitzsimons 46

Part II Corruption, Political Development and Anti-Corruption Campaigns 75

4 Tickling Donors and Tackling Opponents: the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Malawi / David Hall-Matthews 77

5 Corruption and Reform in Nigeria / Paul Okojie, Abubakar Momoh 103

6 Challenges to the Philippine Culture of Corruption / Edna Estifania A. Co 121

7 Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policies in Post-Communist Countries / Anastassiya Zagainova 138

8 Political Corruption in Georgia / Nina Dadalauri 155

9 Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Institution Building Interventions in Jamaica / Philip Duku Osei 167

10 Governance, Neoliberalism and Corruption in Nicaragua / Ed Brown, Jonathan Cloke, Jose Luis Rocha 182

Part III Development Policy and Anti-Corruption Initiatives 203

11 Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana: Does Gender Matter? / Namawu Alhassan Alolo 205

12 Upgrading Democracy in Mozambique: the Question of Party and Election Finance / Bruno Wilhelm Speck 221

13 Accountability in Development Finance Projects: Between the Market and a Soft Place / Sarah Bracking 236

14 Why Anti-Corruption Initiatives Fail: Technology Transfer and Contextual Collision / Richard Heeks 258

15 Strengthening Checks and Balances in Financial Governance: the Evolving Role of Multilateral Banks in Latin America / Carlos Santiso 273.

Notes:

Based on papers from a conference entitled "Redesigning the State: Political Corruption in Development Theory and Practice?" organized by the Global Poverty Research Group at the University of Manchester on November 25th, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230525504

9780230525504

OCLC:

162507314

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