Bad Governance and Corruption

• Main Authors: Rose, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Peiffer, Caryn (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Political Corruption and Governance
• Subjects: Political science.; Public policy.; Political communication.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Governance and Government.; Public Policy.; Political Communication.

This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption. More than 1.8 billion people pay the price of bad government each year, by sending a bribe to a public official. In develo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Setting Standards for Good and Bad Governance
• 2. Getting What You Want from Governance
• 3. Exploiting National Government
• 4. Exploiting People at the Grass Roots
• 5. Explaining Who Pays Grass-Roots Bribes
• 6. Politicians Behaving Badly
• 7. The Impact of Corruption on Citizens
• 8. Making Government Transparent
• 9. Reducing Corruption.