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Political Economy of Corruption and Good Governance (Lafollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The focus of this seminar is on the question: What are the prospects for success in anti-corruption reform and prescriptions, if any, for hurrying good governance along? The seminar has a strong policy orientation: it considers the state of cumulative knowledge on corruption as a policy issue that demands action both within countries and globally by a wide range of players.
Some sample modules and examples of recommended readings are as follows:
Defining Corruption
- Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform
Measuring Corruption
- Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index
- United Nations, International Crime Victims Surveys
Social, Political and Economic Effects of Corruption
- Andrew Wedeman, Looters, Rent-Scrapers, and Dividend Collectors: The Political Economy of Corruption in Zaire, South Korea, and the Philippines
How Corruption May Corrupt
- Philip Oldenburg, Middlemen in Third-World Corruption: Implications of an Indian Case
Multinational Businesses and Anti-Corruption Agreements
- Jon Moran, Bribery and Corruption: The OECD Convention on Combating the Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
Democratic Reform of Elite-Mass Linkages
- Michael Johnston, Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy
Enforcement, Education and Institutional Design
- Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform
Anti-Corruption Agencies
- Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong
For more details on the course syllabus, please see: http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/Courses/PA857/PA857-Syllabus.pdf
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