Gebundenes Buch

Government Anti-Corruption Strategies

A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Herausgeber: Zhang, Yahong; Lavena, Cecilia

Beschreibung

This book is designed to help students, researchers, and practitioners understand public corruption and anti-corruption practices from an international perspective. It describes the problems governments face in dealing with public corruption, outlines strategies that have and have not been implemented by the government, and explains why some countries have achieved great success with handling corruption and why others still struggle to do so. It contains useful knowledge about public corruption and strategic approaches to preventing, reducing, and combating corruption.

Autor

Dr. Yahong Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University, Newark Campus, New Jersey. She is the director of the Rutgers Institute on Anti-Corruption Studies, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Zhang is currently working on an anti-corruption research project that consists of two phases: data collection of public corruption cases at the individual and organizational levels and empirical examination of systematic factors that lead to public corruption. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, and Public Performance and Management Review. Dr. Cecilia Lavena is an adjunct professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the director of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Association for Civil Rights (ADC), a Buenos Aires-based, independent non-partisan non-governmental organization working to guarantee respect for civil and human rights in Argentina and Latin America. Dr. Lavena worked on a project titled "Towards a Culture of Anti-Corruption Compliance in Argentina: Reorienting Incentives through Collective Action" at the Center for Anti-corruption Studies at the Department of Law, Universidad de San Andrés, under the auspices of the Siemens Integrity Initiative. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Public Integrity and American Review of Public Administration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781498712002
• ISBN-10: 1498712002
• Artikelnr.: 42752548