International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption

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Susan Rose-Ackerman
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2007 - Political Science - 656 pages
This collection of articles offers a comprehensive assessment of the subtle but nevertheless pervasive economic infrastructure of corruption. It provides suitable core or adjunct reading for law school, graduate, and undergraduate courses on international
 

Contents

What do we know from a crosssection of countries?
3
2 Measuring governance using crosscountry perceptions data
52
3 Measuring institutions
105
PART II CORRUPTION AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE
125
the role of institutions
127
incentives and constraints in politics
140
6 Decentralization corruption and government accountability
161
7 Corruption hierarchies and bureaucratic structure
189
11 Why are some public officials more corrupt than others?
323
12 Corruption and the demand for regulating capitalists
352
the perspective of Norwegian firms
381
14 Laboratory experiments on corruption
418
PART V SECTORAL ANTICORRUPTION POLICIES
439
15 How corruption affects service delivery and what can be done about it
441
16 Corruption and the management of public works in Italy
457
lessons from institutional reforms in Uganda
484

the limits of conventional economic analysis
216
PART III CORRUPTION IN THE TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM
245
preliminary evidence from the postcommunist transition countries
247
different legacies of central planning
278
PART IV SURVEYS AND EXPERIMENTS
321
lessons from a widespread customs reform
512
19 Prescription for abuse? Pharmaceutical selection in Bulgarian healthcare
546
Name index
597
Subject index
604
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Edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Yale University, US

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