
Shifting Obsessions
Three Essays on the Politics of Anti-Corruption
Ivan Krastev(Editor)
Central European University Press
Published on 10. June 2004
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Hardback
134 pages
978-963-9241-93-0 (ISBN)
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Description
This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-963-9241-93-0 (9789639241930)
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Persons
Aryeh Neier is an American human rights activist. He was the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch.
Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe.
Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe.
Content
List of Figures Foreword Aryeh Neier Preface Acknowledgements When "Should" Does not Imply "Can" The Making of Washington Consensus on Corruption Corruption, Anticorruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection with Georgy Ganev