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Understanding Success and Failure of Anti-Corruption Initiatives
Understanding why initiatives designed to inhibit corruption fail or succeed has direct implications for further development of anti-corruption methodology and practices. In this paper, Heeks and Mathisen evaluate anti-corruption initiatives in developing countries to gauge the extent to which such initiatives have worked. They find that despite improvements in design methodology and implementation over the last two decades, the “design-reality” gap is still vast, frequently leading to full or partial failure of anti-corruption initiatives.
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Political Awareness, Corruption Perceptions and Democratic Accountability in Latin America
This article contributes to the accountability literature on corruption by providing further nuance to the argument that voters are able to monitor the actions of their politicians effectively when they have accurate perceptions of corruption levels in their country. The author posits that research that has concentrated on dissemination of information to the public, usually through the provision of a free press, has failed to account for the underlying heterogeneity of political knowledge among citizens. Such a simplification of the citizen accountability model can then lead to the erroneous assumption that the process of opening up the information environment will result in reduction of corruption levels, as politically aware citizens begin to use their knowledge of political actions to reward or punish politicians.
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'Performing' Bribery in China - Guanxi-Practice, Corruption with a Human Face
This article analyses the entangled relationship between corruption and the so-called guanxi-practice, which is a form of reciprocal conduct that is ubiquitous in China. Unlike most current academic studies on corruption in China which focus on the theme of how the political, economic and social environments have caused corruption at the macro-level, this paper takes a micro-view. It concentrates on how corruption, notably bribery, takes place between a briber and the bribed and challenges the conventional view on the causal relationship between bribery and guanxi-practice.
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Corporate Governance, Judiciary, Local Government, Political Corruption, Procurement, Transition Countries, Global, Asia Pacific, Anti-Corruption Education, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction, Real Estate
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