1st Edition

Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption The New Integrity Warriors

Edited By Luís de Sousa, Barry Hindess, Peter Larmour Copyright 2009
268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity. Key issues of corruption and anti-corruption are discussed in an integrated and innovative way; through a number of... Read more

Foreword by Yves Mény  1. Introduction Luís de Sousa, Peter Larmour and Barry Hindess  Part 1: Theories and Concepts: Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Democratic Politics  2. International Anti-Corruption as a Program of Normalisation Barry Hindess  3. Anti-Corruption as a Risk to Democracy: On the Unintended Consequences of International Anti-Corruption Campaigns Staffan Andersson and Paul M. Heywood  4. The Development of Inspection and Oversight: Blind Alleys and Open Vistas in the Case of American Procurement Policy Frank Anechiarico  Part 2: The Vices and Virtues of Governmental Anti-Corruption  5. Matching Workload, Management and Resources: Setting the context for ‘effective’ anti-corruption commissions Alan Doig  6. Anti-Corruption Bodies as Discourse-Controlling Instruments: Experiences from South East Europe Daniel Smilov  7. Warriors in Chains: Institutional Legacies and Anti-Corruption Programs in Taiwan and South Korea Christian Göbel  8. Populist Anti-Corruption and Military Coups: The Cleanup Campaign in Fiji 2006-7 Peter Larmour  Part 3: The Vices and Virtues of Non-Governmental Anti-Corruption  9. Transnational Anti-Corruption Advocacy: A Multi-Level Analysis of Civic Action in Russia Diana Schmidt-Pfister  10. How do International Organizations Scrutinize Transforming States? The Case of Transparency International and the Baltic States Matilda Dahl  11. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Southeast Europe: Landscapes and Sites Steven Sampson  12. TI in Search of a Constituency: The Institutionalisation and Franchising of the Global Anti-Corruption Doctrine Luís de Sousa  Conclusion

Biography

Luís de Sousa is research associate at CIES-ISCTE, Portugal, and currently Gulbenkian Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Barry Hindess is Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Australia.

Peter Larmour is a Reader in Public Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Australia.