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The politics of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America / edited by Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge corruption and anti-corruption studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Prevention--Government policy--Latin America--Case studies.
- Political corruption.
- Corruption--Prevention--Government policy--Latin America--Case studies.
- Corruption.
- Corruption--Prevention.
- Government policy.
- Political corruption--Prevention.
- Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.
- Latin America.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez is Specially Appointed Associate Professor, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.
- Contents:
- Introduction : locating anti-corruption agencies within the politics of anti-corruption in Latin America
- Anti-corruption whack-a-mole : Costa Rica's de-centralized agencies and increasingly sophisticated corruption
- Combating corruption in Chile : the Presidential Advisory Commissions on Public Probity, 1994-2015
- Promise, invisibility, politicization : the waving path of the Anti-Corruption Office in Argentina
- The politics of building anti-corruption institutions : the case of anti-corruption agencies in Peru
- The anti-corruption agency and its role in anti-corruption policy in Colombia : improvement in institutional capacity or political symbolism?
- Corruption control under fire : a brief history of Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General
- Mexico's national anti-corruption system
- Dealing with the "original contradiction" in fighting corruption in countries with systemic corruption : a critique of the cases of Brazil and Mexico and their multiorganizational strategies
- Unprecedented success and entrenched opposition : the complicated legacy of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala
- The Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) and its new integrated criminal investigation model
- Ten key lessons from the OAS Mission in Support of the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras
- The role of the United Nations and the Organization of American States in delegation of governance agreements : the case of hybrid anticorruption agencies in Central America
- The illusion of CICIES in El Salvador
- Empty promises to fighting corruption in Ecuador : the failure of the International Experts Commission against Corruption in Ecuador (CEICCE)
- Conclusion : the anti-corruption agency space in Latin America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Politics of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America
- ISBN:
- 9781003147886
- 1003147887
- 9781000487855
- 1000487857
- 9781000487862
- 1000487865
- Publisher Number:
- 40030883963
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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