Corruption and global justice / Gillian Brock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brock, Gillian, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption.

Justice.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Corruption is a pervasive problem for global justice: Gillian Brock presents a much-needed philosophical treatment. She offers a new framework for allocating responsibility for corruption, providing the analytical tools we need to tackle the global injustice that it causes.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface

1. Corruption, Responsibilities, and Global Justice: An Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Forms of Corruption: An Introduction

1.3 An Improperly Close Inter-dependence between Business and Government

1.4 Corrupting Healthcare and Medical and Health Knowledge

1.5 What Drives Corruption?

1.6 Book Overview

1.7 Why Should Normative Theorists Be Interested in This Project?

1.8 The Central Kind of Corruption in View in This Project: A Clarification

1.9 Conclusions

2. Corruption and Global Injustice

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Corruption and Global Deprivation: The Case of Clean Water

2.3 What Should We Want in an Account of Global Justice? Some Key Themes

2.4 How Does Corruption Undermine Global Justice Goals?

2.5 Combatting Corruption: Important Lessons from Empirical Studies and Practice

2.6 Conclusions

3. Justice, State Responsibilities, and Human Rights

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Justice for Compatriots and Justice for All

3.3 Human Rights Practice: Central Features

3.4 Is the Human Rights Practice Really the Best We Can Hope for in Our Current Situation?

3.5 Duties to Contribute to Resilient Communities that Are Human Rights Sustaining

3.6 Conclusions

4. Reducing Corruption: The Many Dimensions

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Robust Institutions, Effective Bureaucracies, and Good Governance

4.3 Robust Mechanisms of Accountability

4.4 Transparency and Disclosure Requirements: Opportunities and Limitations

4.5 Good Institutional Design

4.6 Appropriate Ethical and Professional Standards, Procedures, and Training

4.7 Controlling Conflicts of Interest

4.8 Independent Monitoring and Oversight

4.9 Curbing Corruption as a Collective Action problem

4.10 Collaborations and Social Action Coalitions

4.11 Conclusions.

5. Contemporary Corruption-curbing Tools

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Core Parts of UNCAC: An Overview

5.3 UNCAC: Some Examples of Core Obligations for State Parties

5.4 How Effective Has UNCAC Been So Far?

5.5 Multi-stakeholder Initiatives: The Case of Transparency in Extractive Industries

5.6 Transparency and Accountability in Infrastructural Projects

5.7 Conclusions

6. Abusive Tax Avoidance and Tax Professionals' Responsibilities

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Abusive Tax Avoidance: Some Preliminaries

6.3 Factors Contributing to Abusive Tax Avoidance

6.4 Assigning Remedial Responsibilities

6.5 Causal Contribution: How Tax Professionals Facilitate Abusive Tax Avoidance

6.6 Benefit: What Tax Professionals Gain from Abusive Tax Avoidance

6.7 Capacity: What Tax Professionals Could Do about Abusive Tax Avoidance

6.8 Professional Integrity, Collective Action, and the Outline of Some Responsibilities

6.9 Extending the Analysis to Other Enablers

6.10 Conclusion

7. Sharing Responsibilities for Action

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Recapping Some Central Points Important to Sharing Responsibilities

7.3 Duties for Primary Agents of Justice

7.4 Duty Sharing: Some Relevant Factors

7.5 Responsibilities to Create Capacity

7.6 Specialized Skills, Roles, Responsibilities, and Capacity

7.7 Navigating Responsibility Assignments

7.8 Conclusions

8. Addressing Common Challenges and Future Directions

8.1 Introduction to Two Central Challenges

8.2 Are There "Culture-Neutral" Ways of Identifying Corruption?

8.3 Are the Corruption-Curbing Tools on Offer Culturally Inappropriate?

8.4 Chapter Conclusions

8.5 Future Directions

Appendix: Is a Comprehensive Account of Corruption Available? Some Difficulties

A.1 Introduction

A.2 Political Corruption: An Introduction to the Standard Account.

A.3 Mapping the Many Kinds of Political Corruption

A.4 Toward a More Inclusive Account of Political Corruption

A.5 Neighboring Concepts and Some Challenges

A.6 Generalizing the Analysis

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 23, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Brock, Gillian Corruption and Global Justice

ISBN:

0-19-198752-2

0-19-887565-7

0-19-887566-5

OCLC:

1378936399