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Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption in its many forms, describes the available remedies, and examines how we identify and measure corruption’s presence. He demonstrates how determined past and contemporary leaders changed their wildly corrupt countries—even the Nordics—into paragons of virtue, and how leadership is making a significant difference in stimulating political anticorruption movements in places like India, Croatia, Botswana, and Rwanda. Rotberg looks at corporate corruption and how it can be checked, and also offers an innovative fourteen-step plan for nations that are ready to end corruption. Tougher laws and better prosecutions are not enough. This book enables us to rethink the problem completely—and to solve it once and for all.
One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017
Introduction: Beating Back the Varieties of Brigandage 1
I The Nature of Corruption 16
II Measuring and Assessing Corrupt Behavior 50
III Strong Laws and Other Watchdogs 78
IV The Virtue of Anticorruption Investigative Commissions: Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia 109
V African Investigative Commissions: From Integrity to Interference 130
VI The Most Improved: Results 176
VII Nordic, Antipodean, and Other Exceptionalism: How Did Anticorruption Take Root? 197
VIII The Gift of Political Will and Leadership 223
IX People Power, Social Media, and Corporate Rigor 257
X Curing Corruption: Lessons, Methods, and Best Practices 290
XI What Works: The Anticorruption Program 310
A Research Note and Acknowledgments 313
Notes 319
Select Bibliography: Essential Readings on Corruption and Anticorruption 351
Index 365
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Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption in its many forms, describes the available remedies, and examines how we identify and measure corruption’s presence. He demonstrates how determined past and contemporary leaders changed their wildly corrupt countries—even the Nordics—into paragons of virtue, and how leadership is making a significant difference in stimulating political anticorruption movements in places like India, Croatia, Botswana, and Rwanda. Rotberg looks at corporate corruption and how it can be checked, and also offers an innovative fourteen-step plan for nations that are ready to end corruption. Tougher laws and better prosecutions are not enough. This book enables us to rethink the problem completely—and to solve it once and for all.
One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017
