1st Edition
Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture in a Globalized World
1. Forward and Overview
Susan Rose-Ackerman
PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
2. Improving Public Sector Performance in Developing Countries: Practice Meets Scholarship
Jana Kunicová
3. The Strength of Weak Effects
Stephen Kosack
4. Finance, State-Owned Enterprise, and Development: A Comparative Study of Pawnshops in Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan
Weitseng Chen & Mariana Mota Prado
5. Developing Countries’ Utilization of GSP: Labor Standards, the Margin of Preference, and the Demand for Zero Tariffs
Jennifer L. Tobin & Marc L. Busch
6. The Mandate Trilemma: Central Banking in an Era of Credit Crises
Stephen B. Kaplan
CORRUPTION, STATE CAPTURE, AND POLICYMAKING
7. Anticorruption Reform in Structurally Corrupt Environments: The Argentine Trap
Natalia A. Volosin
8. Good News? Latin American Corruption Scandals and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bonnie J. Palifka & Manual Balán
9. Politicization of International Anticorruption Law
Kevin E. Davis
10. Scope and Precision in the Laws against Corporate Bribery
Kalle Moene & Tina Søreide
11. Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture: The Corruption-FDI nexus in the Global Defense Industry
Nancy Hite-Rubin
12. State Capture Matters: Considerations and Empirics towards a Worldwide Measure
Daniel Kaufmann
13. Promoting Political Equality in Healthcare
Ximena Benavides
Biography
Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Yale University. She has published widely on comparative administrative law and public policy and on the political economy of corruption. Her book, Corruption and Government (CUP, 1999, 2d edition with Bonnie Palifka, 2016), is a standard political-economic reference on the topic.
