1st Edition
Measuring Corruption
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing. The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices. The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier. Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: The Problem and Its Identification; Chapter 2: Measuring Corruption; Chapter 3: Corruption Definition and Measurement; Chapter 4: What are We Trying to Measure? Reviewing the Basics of Corruption Definition; Chapter 5: Measuring Corruption – The Validity and Precision of Subjective Indicators (CPI); Chapter 6: Measuring the Immeasurable; Chapter 7: The Non-Perception Based Measurement of Corruption; Chapter 8: Perceptions, Experience and Lies; Part II: The Case Studies; Chapter 9: Corruption Indices for Russian Regions; Chapter 10: Corruption Risk Areas and Corruption Resistance; Chapter 11: The Public as Our Partner in the Fight Against Corruption; Chapter 12: Citizen Report Cards; Chapter 13: Corruption and Patronage Politics; Chapter 14: Measuring Corruption
Biography
Professor Charles Sampford is Director of the Institute of Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University (IEGL), Australia. Dr Arthur Shacklock is Senior Research Fellow in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Australia. Carmel Connors is Senior Research Assistant in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Australia. Fredrik Galtung is Co-Director of TIRI and Director of the Public Integrity Education Network at Central European University in Budapest.
'...Measuring Corruption provides a useful tour d'horizon of the current state of the debate and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to measuring corruption.' The Financial Regulator
