Rethinking Corruption: Reasons Behind the Failure of Anti-Corruption Efforts

Lucio Picci

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Reasons Behind the Failure of Anti-Corruption Efforts

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Lucio Picci, University of Bologna

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009468824
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009468824

Subjects:: Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics

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Why have anti-corruption efforts often failed? Current thinking on corruption has largely overlooked the profound implications of its contested nature, which paradoxically makes it an effective yet highly dysfunctional 'tool of government.' As a tool of government, it helps execute policies and guarantees a degree of political order. Moreover, anti-corruption measures are wielded as political instruments, strategically embraced by governments and oppositions to further their respective agendas. Based on an analysis of Russia, Brazil and the United States, Rethinking Corruption takes a fresh look at corruption and critiques the prevailing view of anti-corruption policies. Embarking on a captivating journey through these countries, this book encompasses the notion of legal corruption and invites a comprehensive reconsideration of corruption, with a focal point on questions of economic and political equality.

Co-winner, 2025 Best Book Award, The International Public Policy Association

‘thought-provoking … provocative … Recommended.’

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Rethinking Corruption
pp i-ii

Rethinking Corruption - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

Part I - Laying the Groundwork
pp 1-84

1 - Introduction
pp 3-15

2 - The Consensus on Corruption
pp 16-31

3 - The Mutual Shaping of Measures and Concepts
pp 32-51

4 - Of Causality and Historical Junctures
pp 52-71

5 - What We Talk about When We Talk about Corruption
pp 72-84

Part II - Three Case Studies
pp 85-168

6 - The Carrot and the Stick
pp 87-110

7 - Corruption as the Glue of the System
pp 111-138

8 - Legal Corruption in the United States of America
pp 139-168

Part III - Rethinking Corruption
pp 169-226

9 - Legal Corruption and Other Societal Geographies
pp 171-191

10 - A Problem of Control
pp 192-206

11 - Fighting Corruption, Fighting for Corruption
pp 207-219

12 - Conclusions
pp 220-226

References
pp 227-252

Index
pp 253-257

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