1st Edition
Government Anti-Corruption Strategies A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Foreword
Editors
Contributors
Introduction: Corruption and Government Anti-Corruption Strategies
Yahong Zhang and José G. Vargas-Hernández
Anti-Corruption Actions: Nongovernmental and Intergovernmental Organizations
Benjamin W. Cramer
Anti-Corruption Practices in India
Meena Nair
The Whistleblowing Program as an Anti-Corruption Tool in China
Hua Xu, Xuejiao Zhao, Qingming Zhang, and Minglu Xu
Lessons from China: Fighting Corruption in the Construction Sector
Jiangnan Zhu and Yiping Wu
Anti-Corruption Lessons from Nepal
Narayan Manandhar
Evolution of Anti-Corruption Strategies in South Korea
Kilkon Ko and Sue Yeon Cho
Anti-Corruption Strategies in Singapore: Demystifying the Singapore Model
Wenxuan Yu
Fighting Corruption in Central and Eastern European Countries through Transparency: Regulatory and Institutional Challenges
Bogdana Neamtu and Dacian C. Dragos
How a Resurgent Antigraft Bureau Helped Croatia Turn a Corner on Corruption
Gabriel Kuris
Anti-Corruption Strategies in the Gulf Cooperation Council’s States: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
Mhamed Biygautane
Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials: A Countercorruption Strategy in Developed Countries
Cindy Davids
What Can We Learn from Worldwide Anti-Corruption Practices?
Yahong Zhang
Index
Biography
Dr. Yahong Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University, Newark Campus, New Jersey. She is the director of the Rutgers Institute on Anti-Corruption Studies, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Zhang is currently working on an anti-corruption research project that consists of two phases: data collection of public corruption cases at the individual and organizational levels and empirical examination of systematic factors that lead to public corruption. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, and Public Performance and Management Review.
Dr. Cecilia Lavena is an adjunct professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the director of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Association for Civil Rights (ADC), a Buenos Aires-based, independent non-partisan non-governmental organization working to guarantee respect for civil and human rights in Argentina and Latin America. Dr. Lavena worked on a project titled "Towards a Culture of Anti-Corruption Compliance in Argentina: Reorienting Incentives through Collective Action" at the Center for Anti-corruption Studies at the Department of Law, Universidad de San Andrés, under the auspices of the Siemens Integrity Initiative. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Public Integrity and American Review of Public Administration.
