Corruption and Development - (Palgrave Studies in Development) by S Bracking (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This collection examines anti-corruption campaigns and argues that they have often resulted in perverse and unintended consequences. The book examines how corruption has been addressed (and sometimes tolerated) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and East & Central Europe to interrogate government policy and question development discourse and practice.

Review Quotes

'This book is an important contribution to the study of corruption.' - Political Studies Review

About the Author

NAMAWU ALOLO Policy and Research Analyst at Islamic Relief, UK ED BROWNE Lecturer in Geography, Loughborough University, UK DERYCK BROWN Adviser, Governance and Development, at the Commonwealth Secretariat, UK JON CLOKE Lecturer in Geography at the University of Newcastle, UK EDNA ESTIFANIA A. CO Professor of Public Administration and Governance at the University of the Philippines NINA DADALAURI Research Fellow at the Translational Crime and Corruption Centre - Caucasus Office in Tbilisi, Georgia (TRACCC-CO) VINCE FITZSIMONS Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Business Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK DAVID HALL-MATTHEWS Lecturer in International Development in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds University, UK RICHARD HEEKS Senior Lecturer in Development Informatics at the University of Manchester, UK KALIN S. IVANOV Doctoral candidate in international relations at the University of Oxford, UK ABUBAKAR MOMOH Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Lagos State University, Nigeria PAUL OKOJIE Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK PHILIP DUKU OSEI Fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica JOSÉ LUIS ROCHA Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua CARLOS SANTISO Governance and public finance adviser with the Department for International Development, UK BRUNO WILHELM SPECK Professor ofPolitical Science, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil ANASTASSIYA ZAGAINOVA Researcher at PEPSE - Espace Europe Institute, University Pierre Mendès France, France