Overview

In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control—no less than corruption itself—has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration. ""Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical need to reevaluate just what we have and are doing to public servants, and to the public, in the name of anti-corruption.""—Citylaw ""A timely and very useful addition to the new debate over corruption and reform.""—Michael Johnston, American Political Science Review

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Author:   Frank Anechiarico ,  James B. Jacobs ,  Anechiarico, Frank Professor and Chair of the Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA)
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Volume:   1996
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780226020518

ISBN 10:   0226020517
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   15 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Preface 1: The Evolution of Corruption: From ""Honest Graft"" to Conflicts of Interest 2: The Evolution of the Anticorruption Project: From Virtue to Surveillance 3: Civil Service and the Anticorruption Project: Bondage to a Principle 4: Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosures: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity 5: Whistleblowers: Uncovering Wrongdoing at Any Price 6: Internal Government Investigation: The Panopticon in New York City 7: State and Federal Prosecutors: Putting Public Officials on Ice 8: Purging Corruption from Public Contracting: Blacklists, Debarments, and the Paralysis of Procurement 9: Auditing and Accounting Controls: Beyond Bean Counting 10: Waging War Against the Inevitable 11: Public Administration: From Reform to Pathology 12: Toward a New Discourse on Corruption Control Notes Bibliography Table of Cases Index"

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