Shifting Obsessions
Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption
Published on 1. June 2004
135 pages
978-615-5053-89-4 (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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-615-5053-89-4 (9786155053894)
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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
