Title: Corruption and development : the anti-corruption campaigns /
Authors: Bracking, Sarah, 1968-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Political corruption Developing countries Congresses.; Political corruption Developing countries Prevention Congresses.; Business ethics Developing countries Congresses.; Economic development Developing countries Congresses.; TRUE CRIME General.; Business ethics; Economic development; Political corruption; Political corruption Prevention
Abstract: Since the 1990s, anti-corruption discourse and policy has become an unquestioned moral 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 policy and practice in the field of corruption and anti-corruption, interrogating development assistance policy for anti-corruption as well as the implementation, meanings and practicies of policy across a range of case studies. 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 precludes more substantive political programmes, such as democratization. It examines the implicit agendas that anti-corruption campaigns serve - the assumption of Northern supremacy - and places the debate on political corruption in historical perspective, highlighting the racialized framing of the problem. The problematizing of government policies on corruption and the deconstruction of the discourse of the global anti-corruption campaigns also shed light on the nature of the development industry as a whole. Includes a Foreword by Deryck Brown, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK.
Contents: Political development and corruption: why 'right here, right now!'? / Sarah Bracking -- The limits of a global campaign against corruption / Kalin S. Ivanov -- Economic models of corruption / Vincent G. Fitzsimons -- Tickling donors and tackling opponents: the anti-corruption campaign in Malawi / David Hall-Matthews -- Corruption and reform in Nigeria / Paul Okojie and Abubakar Momoh -- Challenges to the Philippine culture of corruption / Edna Estifania A. Co -- Challenges of anti-corruption policies in post-communist countries / Anastassiya Zagainova -- Political corruption in Georgia / Nina Dadalauri -- Corruption scandals and anti-corruption institution building interventions in Jamaica / Philip Duku Osei -- Governance, neoliberalism, and corruption in Nicaragua / Ed Brown, Jonathan Cloke, and José Luis Rocha -- Fighting public sector corruption in Ghana: does gender matter? / Namawu Alhassan Alolo -- Upgrading democracy in Mozambique: the question of party and election finance / Bruno Wilhelm Speck -- Accountability in development finance projects: between the market and a soft place / Sarah Bracking -- Why anti-corruption initiatives fail: technology transfer and contextual collision / Richard Heeks -- Strengthening checks and balances in financial governance: the evolving role of multiculutural banks in Latin America / Carlos Santiso.