1st Edition

Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts

Edited By Omar E. Hawthorne, Stephen Magu Copyright 2018
264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors. Across the globe, the annual publication of TI’s CPI and World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators elicits spirited denials and accusations of targeting, of neo-colonialism. Poor measures on corruption indices and the ensuing negative publicity can... Read more

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List of Contributors

  1. Introduction: Corruption Scandals and Global Governance
  2. Omar E. Hawthorne and Stephen Magu

  3. The Management or Mismanagement of Corruption in Trinidad and Tobago
  4. Ann Marie Bissessar

  5. Examining the Potential Impact of Whistleblowing on Corruption in the Caribbean’s Financial Sector
  6. Philmore Alleyne and Marissa Chandler

  7. A Fish Rots from the Head: Corruption Scandals in Post-Communist Russia
  8. Leslie Holmes

  9. Toa Kitu Kidogo: When "Chai" is not Tea – and Kenya’s Corruption Scandals
  10. Stephen Magu

  11. Campaign Donation and Extradition of the Connected in Jamaica
  12. Omar E. Hawthorne

  13. Big, Bigger, Biggest: Grand corruption scandals in the oil sector in Nigeria
  14. Sope Williams-Elegbe

  15. A Spoonful of Laws Doesn’t Help the Bribery Go Down: Persistent Contributing Factors of Corruption in the US Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry
  16. Mikhail Reider-Gordon

  17. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the US and Extra-territorial Enforcement of an International Anti-Bribery Regime
  18. Jeffery Raymond Mistich

  19. The Dynamics of Corruption in Brazil: From Trivial Bribes to a Corruption Scandal
  20. Ligia Maura Costa

  21. "The theory of the world in-between": corporatism and mafia-ness in the new type of corruption in Italy
  22. Davide Torsello

  23. Belarus: Do Stones Thrown Into A Marsh Make Rings?
  24. Pavel Sascheko

  25. Conclusion: Lessons Learned

Omar E. Hawthorne

Biography

Omar E. Hawthorne is lecturer of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.

Stephen Magu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hampton University, USA.