Shifting Obsessions
Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption
Published on 1. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
135 pages
978-963-9241-94-7 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Shifting Obsessions should stimulate a more healthy, sorely needed debate on corruption, anti-corruption policy, and the politics of anti-corruption. It could contribute to the encouragement of anti-corruption policies divorced from rhetoric and linked more closely to local problems. For these two reasons alone, it is one of the most important contributions to the anti-corruption debate in recent years." - Transitions OnlineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
157 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-9241-94-7 (9789639241947)
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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