Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Basu, Kaushik (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cordella, Tito (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Economic Association Series,
• Subjects: International economics.; Law and economics.; Economic policy.; International Economics.; Law and Economics.; Economic Policy.

This book considers how emerging economies around the world face the challenge of building good institutions and effective governance, since so much of economic development depends on having these in place. The promotion of shared prosperity and the battle against poverty require interventions to re...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Anti-Corruption Institutions: Some History and Theory
• 3. Corruption as a Political Phenomenon
• 4.Corruption, Organized Crime, and Money Laundering
• 5. Reflections on Corruption in the Context of Political and Economic Liberalization
• 6. Why is Italy Disproportionally Corrupt? A Conjecture
• 7. Cohesive Institutions and the Distribution of Political Rents
• 8. If Politics Is the Problem, How Can External Actors Be Part of the Solution?
• 9. Fighting Political Corruption: Evidence from Brazil
• 10. What Drives Citizen Perceptions of Government Corruption? National Income, Petty Bribe Payments and the Unknown
• 10. What Drives Citizen Perceptions of Government Corruption? National Income, Petty Bribe Payments and the Unknown
• 11. Doing the Survey Two-Step: The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions. .